Issue - meetings

National Living Wage - Review of Grading Structure

 

 

Meeting: 17/03/2016 - Council (Item 106)

106 Addressing 'Low Pay' within the Workforce - Impact of the National Living Wage pdf icon PDF 112 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report seeking approval of a revised grading structure that would enable the Council to continue to address the issue of low pay within the workforce, implement the National Living Wage and move further towards the UK Living Wage.

 

COUNCIL RESOLVED -

That the deletion of SCP 8 from the grading structure proposed be approved with effect from 1 April 2016

 

Meeting: 23/02/2016 - Cabinet (Item 172)

172 Addressing the 'Low Pay' within the Workforce - Impact of the National Living Wage pdf icon PDF 516 KB

Report of the Strategic Director, Corporate Services and Governance

Minutes:

Consideration has been given to recommending the Council to approve a revised grading structure that would enable the Council to address the issue of low pay within the workforce, implement the National Living Wage and move further towards the UK Living Wage.

 

 

 

The alternative option to that being recommended, but which was discounted, included lifting the pay of employees on scale point 8 to the new National Living Wage.

 

 

 

RESOLVED -

(i)

That the Council be recommended to approve the deletion of scale point 8 from the grading structure with effect from 1 April 2016.

 

 

 

 

(ii)

That further reports be submitted on the outcomes of the national pay negotiations and further options to address low pay within the Council’s workforce.

 

 

 

The above decisions have been made to go beyond compliance with the National Living Wage as a significant step to addressing low pay within the Council’s workforce in a way which is workable and affordable.