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Pay & Reward Strategy

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Meeting: 11/09/2019 - Cabinet (Item 38)

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To set out the approach to implementing BCP Council’s pay and reward strategy and seek approval for the resources required to deliver the new arrangements.

Decision:

RESOLVED that Cabinet:

(a) support the proposed characteristics of the new pay structure;

(b) support the aspiration to have new pay and reward; arrangements in place as soon as is reasonably possible, and preferably within 12 months of mobilisation;

(c) support the approach to implementation subject to approval of funding by Council;

(d) support a further competition under Lot 4 of the CCS Management Consultancy Framework as the process for procuring an external partner to support the implementation process;

(e) Delegate Authority to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader of the Council to award the contract for an external partner following the procurement process;

(f) Delegate authority to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader of the Council to undertake collective bargaining with recognised trade unions; and

(g) agree that a report be brought back to Cabinet to approve the final pay and reward arrangements in due course.

RECOMMENDED that Council approve the allocation of £2.1m funding for additional internal capacity and external support for delivering the pay and reward strategy.

Voting: Unanimous

REASONS

To comply with the Council’s obligations under the Equalities Act 2010 and ensure that pay and reward arrangements are fair and equitable for all BCP employees.

To provide the Council with a new employee proposition that can be used to underpin recruitment and retention and the ongoing development of the workforce.

Minutes:

The Leader of the Council presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix ‘J' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Cabinet were asked to consider and support the approach to implementing BCP Council’s pay and reward strategy and to approve the resources required to deliver the new arrangements.

The Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Board reported that the Board, at its meeting on 9 September 2019 made the following recommendations in respect of the item:

(a) Cabinet agree the recommendations at 1-5 of the report

(b) Cabinet resolve that the recommendation at 6 in the Cabinet report be amended to end after the words “Trade Unions”

(c) Cabinet approve the following additional recommendation to be added at 7, “To agree that a report be brought back to Cabinet to approve the final pay and reward arrangements in due course”

(d) Subject to the approval of the above recommendations Cabinet agree that the recommendation at 7 in the Cabinet report becomes recommendation 8.

In addition the Chairman of the Overview and Scrutiny Board advised that Overview and Scrutiny would want to consider this issue again before the final report to Cabinet and would appreciate as much time as possible in order to consider future Cabinet reports.

Cabinet discussed the report and advised that they understood the concerns raised, but that it was necessary to ensure that the pay and reward arrangements were fair and equitable.