Agenda and minutes

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 20 March 2018 and the minutes of the Annual meeting held on 23 May 2018.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the Committee held on 23 May 2018 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

There were no urgent items of business.

A verbal update from the Chairman of the Local Joint Committee.

Councillor Allen reported that UNSION were supportive of  the change to the  December Pay Date, which was being brought to Employment Committee on the 18 July 2018. It was also reported that UNSION were supportive of both the Senior Leadership report and the Library Frontline Staff Restructure, UNISON had been heavily involved in the latter report.

The Committee is asked to note the minutes of the Local Joint Committee held on 20 March 2018.

The Committee noted the minutes of the Local Joint Committee held on 20 March 2018.

To consider the following motion:

That pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of  item  8 & 9 which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of that Act:

(3)        Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person.

RESOLVED that pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of the following item which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of that Act:

(1)        Information relating to any individual  (Item 8 & 9 in the agenda, Items 10 & 11 in the minutes).

To provide any consultation comments concerning the latest phase of the Libraries restructure.

The Committee received a report  on  the Transformation Programme  - Library Frontline Staff Restructure.

The Chairman of Employment Committee had previously  circulated the report on 30 April 2018 for members to consider and  to feedback any comments prior to the end of the consultation period.

RESOLVED that the Committee notes the proposals, contained within the Director of Resources report.

To outline and endorse the changes to the senior leadership structure.

The Committee received a report  which outlined the changes to the senior leadership restructure and requested that the Committee endorse the changes to senior leadership structure which had been agreed by Executive on 8 May.  The report also asked the Committee to agree the severance payments for Senior

Officers not appointed to the new structure, arising from the decisions of the

Appointments Panels in early June and  agree the detail of the pay structure including the performance management aspects, which the Executive had approved in principle at its meeting on 8 May 2018.

RESOLVED that:

 i)             the deletion of the following posts from 31 August 2018 except where

shown is agreed:

· Director of Resources

· Director of Environment, Culture and Communities

· Chief Officer, Environment and Public Protection

· Head of Performance and Resources (ECC)

· Chief Officer: HR

· Chief Officer: Planning, Transport and Countryside

· Director: Adult Social Care, Health and Housing (31 March 2019)

· Director: Children, Young People and Learning (31 March 2019)

ii)             the creation of the following posts with effect from 1 September

2018 except where shown, is agreed:

· Executive Director: People (with effect from June 2018)

· Executive Director: Delivery

· Director: Organisational Development, Transformation and HR

· Director: Place, Planning and Regeneration

· Assistant Director: Contract Services

And the redesignation of the following substantially unchanged posts

with effect from 1 September 2018, is agreed:

· Director: Finance (formerly Borough Treasurer)

· Assistant Director Customer Experience (formerly CO: Customer

Experience)

    iii)        the redundancy/severance payments attached at exempt  Appendix A of the Chief Executive’s report, following the Appointment Committee interviews on 8 June with effect from 31August 2018 unless otherwise shown in the appendix, is agreed.

   iv)        the introduction of performance related pay arrangements for Executive Directors and Directors in line with the key policy principles set out in Appendix B of the Chief Executives report  with effect from 1 April 2019, is agreed.

    v)        authority is delegated  to the Chairman of Employment Committee, Chief

Executive and the Director: Organisational Development, Transformation & HR to agree transitional arrangements from September 2018 to 31 March 2019 in relation to the introduction of performance related pay.

   vi)        the detail of the new senior pay arrangements outlined in Appendix C of the Chief Executives report is agreed.

  vii)        the revisions to the Council’s revised pay policy statement attached at

Appendix D of the Chief Executives report is noted and it was noted this will be deferred to Council for agreement.