Issue - meetings

The Council considered the recommendation from Cabinet at its meeting held on 18 July 2018, to take steps to move to local arrangements for agreeing future pay and local terms and conditions for all Council employees. 

Resolved to:

1.    agree that the Council takes steps to move to local arrangements for agreeing future pay awards for all employees;

2.    agree that the Council takes steps to move to local terms and conditions for all employees;

3.    agree formal proposals for consultation with UNISON and employees;

4.    agree a timetable and process for implementing the move to local pay and conditions from April 2019;

5.    delegate to the Chief Executive (in consultation with the Leader) authorisation to formally conclude a Collective Agreement with UNISON on local pay awards and local terms and conditions; and

6.    delegate to the Chief Executive authorisation to consult directly with staff on local pay awards and local terms and conditions if a Collective Agreement with UNISON cannot be reached by 31 August 2018.  This may run in parallel with any continuing consultation with UNISON to finalise the terms of any Collective Agreement.

Councillor Boughtflower

To consider a proposal to move away from national arrangements for pay awards, terms and conditions and to move to local Spelthorne pay and conditions with effect from 1 April 2019 and to make a recommendation to Council.

Cabinet considered a report proposing a move from nationally agreed pay awards and terms and conditions for staff to local Spelthorne arrangements for pay awards, and incorporating the current national conditions of service that apply to Council employees into local Spelthorne terms and conditions of employment terms and conditions.

Alternative options considered and rejected by Cabinet:

To continue to apply national pay awards and national terms and conditions.

Resolved to recommend Council:

1.    To agree that the Council takes steps to move to local arrangements for agreeing future pay awards for all employees;

2.    To agree that the Council takes steps to move to local terms and conditions for all employees;

3.    To agree formal proposals for consultation with UNISON and employees;

4.    To agree a timetable and process for implementing the move to local pay and conditions from April 2019;

5.    To delegate to the Chief Executive (in consultation with the Leader) authorisation to formally conclude a Collective Agreement with UNISON on local pay awards and local terms and conditions; and

6.    To delegate to the Chief Executive authorisation to consult directly with staff on local pay awards and local terms and conditions if a Collective Agreement with UNISON cannot be reached by 31 August 2018.  This may run in parallel with any continuing consultation with UNISON to finalise the terms of any Collective Agreement.

Reasons for recommendation

The Council will in future be more self-sufficient and able to take account of local circumstances and affordability.