Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Corporate, Customer & Community Services).

The Deputy Leader of the Council (Corporate, Customer & Community Services) (Councillor Iain Roberts) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out the Council’s approach to pay policy in accordance with the requirements of Section 38 of the Localism Act 2011.

RESOLVED – That the Annual Pay Policy Statement be confirmed and published in accordance with the Localism Act 2011.

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Corporate, Customer & Community Services)

This Pay Policy Statement (the ‘statement’) sets out the Council’s approach to pay policy in accordance with the requirements of Section 38 of the Localism Act 2011.  The policy also has due regard for the associated statutory guidance including supplementary guidance issued in February 2013 and the Local Government Transparency code 2014.

The purpose of the statement is to provide transparency with regard to the Council’s approach to setting the pay of its employees (excluding teaching staff working in local authority schools) by confirming the methods by which salaries of all employees are determined; the detail and level of remuneration of its most senior staff i.e. ‘chief officers’, as defined by the relevant legislation; the responsibility of the Appointments Committee to ensure the provisions set out in this statement relating to the Chief Executive, Deputy Chief Executive, Corporate Directors and Service Directors are applied consistently throughout the Council and recommend any amendments to the Council.

Once approved by the full Council, this policy statement will come into immediate effect and will be subject to review on a minimum of an annual basis, the policy for the next financial year being approved by 31 March each year.

The Executive is invited to recommend to the Council Meeting that it approve the 2015/16 Annual Pay Policy Statement.

Officer contact: Laureen Donnan, 0161 474 3181, Laureen.donnan@stockport.gov.uk

The Executive Councillor (Corporate, Customer & Community Services) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive to consider the Annual Pay Policy Statement for 2015/16 that had been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Localism Act 2011.

RESOLVED – That the Council Meeting be recommended to approve the 2015/16 Annual Pay Policy Statement.