Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Corporate Services

The Cabinet Member Corporate Services explained that a requirement of the Localism Act 2011 was for councils to produce a pay policy statement in respect of employees each financial year.  The key changes against 2012-13 were the addition of a reference to the Living Wage and deletion of the reference to Car Allowances. The approved pay policy statement would be published on the CBC website to comply with the government guidance that a council’s approach to pay needs to be accessible for citizens and to enable local tax payers to take an informed view of whether local decisions on all aspects of remuneration are fair and make best use of public funds.

The Cabinet Member referred to the drafting corrections to section 1.1 of the draft Pay Policy Statement which had been tabled.

A member higllighted that the role of Returning Officer had not been identified separately in the document. The Cabinet Member Corporate Services agreed to follow this up.

Upon a vote it was (unanimously)

RESOLVED that the 2013-14 Pay Policy Statement (Appendix 2) be approved.