Issue - meetings

To ensure that the hourly rate of pay of council employees at the lower end of the London pay spine remain at a reasonable and fair level of pay for working in London as determined by the Living Wage Unit on behalf of the Mayor of London for the Greater London Authority  group. 

The Committee considered a report on the implementation of hourly pay rate supplements to the pay scales of council employees at the lower end of the London pay spine to increase the hourly rate of pay to the level of the London Living wage (LLW) as determind by the Mayor of London’s office.

In principal there was agreement to the policy of adhearing to the Living Wage. Following questions about whether the required increases to council employees at the lower end of the London Pay spine could have financed other changes in terms and conditions for all staff, there was disagreement amongst the Committee Members with this suggestion. Subsequently,  the majority of the Committee  made the following resolutions:

 RESOLVED

1. That  the implementation of local hourly pay supplements for council employees at the lower end of the London pay spine to increase the hourly rate of pay to the level of the London Living Wage rate as determined by the Greater London Authority. 

2. That the  increase to the pay rates of agency workers to ensure that no one is paid less than the London Living Wage as determined by the Greater London Authority be agreed.

3. That the above additional pay supplements/ increases with effect from 2 May 2011.

4. That the Head of Human Resources be given delegated authority to increase and/or introduce hourly pay supplements as appropriate to ensure that in future the pay of council employees at the lower ends of the London pay spine receive a level of pay in line with the London Living Wage rate as determined from time to time by the Greater London Authority.

5. That the  Head of Human Resources be delegated authority to increase the pay and charge rates of agency workers to ensure that they are paid no less than the London Living Wage rate as determined from time to time by the Greater London Authority.

6. That the principle of adopting the Greater London Authority London Living Wage rate  be agreed and be applied as the minimum pay level for staff providing services to the council under procurement contract arrangements.