Issue - meetings
Reward Strategy
Meeting: 29/10/2018 - General Purposes Committee (Item 4)
Minutes:
Will Tuckley, Chief Executive, and Amanda Harcus, Divisional Director, HR, introduced the report which provided an update to Members on the ongoing work looking at the reward strategy at the Council. It was explained that whilst the Council offered a number of rewards and benefits for staff members there was not an overarching reward strategy that could capture everything that was offered and how the Council ensured it was a good place to work where staff were treated fairly. It was also a useful way of comparing benefits offered to other London Boroughs and employers.
During discussion it was noted that:
· The Council aspired to be the best employer in terms of the overall wellbeing of its staff.
· This was an opportunity to harmonise and simplify pay scales and conditions.
· It was important to offer flexibility to the overall strategy when necessary, for example in areas where recruitment was difficult.
· The review could look at how social impact was measured as against financial impact of the strategy.
· Areas that officers were monitoring included the gender pay gap, ethnicity breakdowns and how staff progressed up the corporate structure.
· The Committee were interested in how the review progressed generally but in particular would always wish to be involved in relation to benefits offered to senior officers.
The Committee agreed to delegate to the Chief Executive to continue developing the strategy and asked that he present the completed work at the appropriate time.
RESOLVED
1. To agree the proposed Reward Strategy set out at paragraph 2.4 of the report.
2. To note the connection between the TOWER values and our reward strategy.
3. To agree that, in accordance with the councils’ constitution, the Chief Executive has delegated authority to develop the total reward package for council employees in accordance with the Reward Strategy and the TOWER values.