Issue - meetings

Council considered the recommendation of the Cabinet on the Pay Policy Statement for 2019/20.

The Pay Policy Statement set out the Council’s policies on a range of issues relating to the pay of its workforce, particularly its senior staff and the lowest paid employees, including:

•         Remuneration of its Chief Officers

•         Remuneration of its lowest paid employees

•         The relationship between the remuneration of its Chief Officers and the remuneration of those employees who are not Chief Officers

•         The publication of and access to information relating to remuneration of Chief Officers.

Resolved to approve the Pay Policy Statement 2019/20.

Councillor Boughtflower

To consider the Pay Policy Statement for 2019/20 and make a recommendation to Council.

Cabinet considered a report on the Annual Pay Policy Statement 2019/20.  The statement sets out the Council’s policies on a range of issues relating to the pay of its workforce, particularly its senior staff and the lowest paid employees.

Resolved to recommend that Council approves the Pay Policy Statement for 2019/20.

Reason for the decision:

Cabinet noted that the Localism Act 2011 required local authorities to publish an annual pay policy statement to increase transparency regarding the use of public funds to pay Council staff. The pay policy statement must be agreed by full council and published by 31 March each year.