Issue - meetings

To update Members on the progress of the review of  employment terms and conditions.

Members received a short update on the current status of discussions concerning staff terms and conditions.  A fuller report on the progress of the terms and conditions negotiations and the changes proposed to the areas outlined in the penultimate paragraph of section 3 would come back to a further Committee meeting.  In considering this information the Committee identified that they had not seen the earlier detail of proposed changes to employee terms and conditions  and therefore  were not aware of the  proposed changes   that  had since been  discounted  or not agreed upon. It was subsequently agreed that the Assistant Chief Executive circulate this information to Members of the Committee after the meeting.

Concern was expressed by some Members about how the Member appeal process operated and whether the panel hearings were an appropriate use of Member’s time when cases often went to Employment Tribunal.  As this provision was offered in the terms and conditions of staff employed by the council it was a matter for discussions between staff, unions and management.  This subject was to be discussed with the unions as part of the negotiations on employment terms and conditions and reported upon at a further meeting.

Members were generally unhappy with the level of detail in the report and did not note the report.