Issue - meetings

(Report of the Acting Head of H.R.)  Since December 2005 the Council has been operating a new redeployment process. This report outlines the improvements that have been made and seeks agreement to changes to the redeployment policy.

This report outlined the Council’s revised redeployment process, including the improvements which had been made to date.  The report also proposed changes to the redeployment policy.

The Acting Head of Human Resources set out to Members the improvements which had been made to the redeployment process since the installation of a full-time redeployment Officer, providing a saving to the Council of over £250,000 and a 34% redeployment rate.  The committee learned that a key change to policy proposed in the report included the extension of trial periods from redeployed employees from 4 weeks to up to 12 weeks.

The committee noted that internal staff vacancies were monitored by the Redeployment Officer, who was available to identify potential posts for those needing redeployment prior to the vacancy being released for advertisement.  Coaching and training sessions for those staff requiring redeployment were also held as part of a more proactive approach to tackling the issue.

Members were pleased with the improvements that had been made, and expressed their desire that further improvements relating to the redeployment rate be pursued.

RESOLVED:

1. That further improvement in the Council’s redeployment policy be encouraged.

2. That the committee approve the changes to the redeployment policy outlined in the report.