Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Governance & Support Services)

(Note: this report includes information ‘Not for Publication’ contained within its appendix which has been circulated to executive councillors only)

This report asks the Executive to formally authorise making payment offers to claimants in line with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Council and the representatives of those claimants. The signing of the MoU was approved by the Executive Councillor (Governance and Corporate Services) on 20 July 2012.  The resulting payments will be funded from the provision established for that purpose. The signed MoU is attached as Confidential Appendix 1.

The report provides the background to the equal value claims, explaining how the Council has previously responded to the implementation of the 1997 Single Status Agreement and the 2004 Pay Agreement for local authority workers. It outlines the recent developments that have led to the introduction of the MoU and the recommendation that offers should now be made to settle the outstanding claims.

The Executive is invited to:

·         approve making offers of settlement in line with the MoU and commit to making compensation payments from the financial provision set aside for that purpose, and

·         delegate to the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services the authority to determine the timing and process for implementing the MoU

Officer contact: Ken Wheatley, 0161 218 1437, ken.wheatley@stockport.gov

The Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Services) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to consider the settling of outstanding claims arising from the 1997 Single Status Agreement and the 2004 Pay Agreement for Local Authority workers. The payment offers to claimants were in line with the Memorandum of Understanding between the Council and claimants representatives, signed by the Executive Councillor (Governance & Corporate Services) on 20 July 2012 (confidential appendix 1 of the report).

(Note: the report included information ‘Not for Publication’ contained within its appendix that had been circulated to executive councillors only).

RESOLVED – That approval be given to:

·         the making of offers of settlement to claimants under the 2004 Pay Agreement for Local Authority workers in line with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and the commitment of the Council to making compensation payments to be funded from the provision set aside in accordance with the signed MoU;

·         the delegation to the Corporate Director for Corporate and Support Services the authority to determine the timing and process for implementing the MoU.