Agenda item

Report of the Director of Human Resources.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Human Resources which proposed the reintroduction of a fixed formula for enhanced redundancy payments for a period of two years.

Members asked questions regarding the relationship between this proposed policy and the Service Based Review (SBR), the proposed duration of the policy, the financial impact of the proposed policy on SBR savings, whether this proposed policy would be subject to negotiation with the Joint Consultative Committee and the business case and rationale for the proposed policy.

The Director of Human Resources advised the Committee that the policy was proposed to provide a better position for officers who were subject to redundancy from the SBR, and therefore it was intrinsically linked to the SBR. The policy was therefore proposed to last for the remaining two year duration of the SBR. The Chamberlain informed the Committee that it had previously been agreed that redundancy costs arising from SBR proposals would be met from a central reserve.

The Committee requested that the Director of Human Resources provide a further report to the next meeting of the Committee to provide further information in relation to the likely financial impact, the business case and the overall rationale for the proposed policy.

RESOLVED – That the Director of Human Resources provides a further report on the proposed fixed formula for enhanced redundancy be submitted to the Committee’s next meeting, providing further information in relation as to the likely financial impact, the business case and the overall rationale for the proposed policy.