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Agenda item

Employment and Health and Safety Policies

Purpose

To update the Cabinet relating to the refresh of all Human Resources and Health & Safety policies for CDC.

 

Recommendations

That Cabinet resolves to:

1)    Agree the twenty-six employment policies and the Health & Safety Policy included in Annex A.

2)    Delegate authority to the Chief Executive to approve subsequent amendments to any Cotswold District Council employment policies that may be necessary in line with legal changes and best practice to ensure the Council’s policies remain compliant.

Minutes:

The Leader revised the order of business on the request of the Chief Executive to consider this item first.

 

The purpose of the report was to update the Cabinet relating to the refresh of all Human Resources and Health & Safety policies for CDC.

 

The Assistant Director for Organisational Effectiveness introduced the report and outlined the report as presented. It was also explained that three policies had been withdrawn from the document for technical reasons; the Expenses Policy, Flexi-time TOIL and Overtime Policy, and the Redundancy Policy.

 

It was noted that the updated 23 employment policies and the health and safety policy presented would help to ensure that the policies would mitigate any risk of challenge. This would be further strengthened by the delegation to the Chief Executive to ensure the policies remain legally compliant.

 

The Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Employment Policies Task and Finish Group, Councillor David Cunningham addressed Cabinet regarding the policies presented. It was noted that the policies withdrawn were additional policies being reviewed and were not part of the core policies being refreshed.

It was noted that the Task and Finish Group was satisfied with the policies presented, and believed that these policies would serve the council well.

 

In response to a question on the policies in relation to Publica, it was noted by Cabinet that the policies presented were for Cotswold District Council employees did not have any change to terms and conditions. However the processes would be the same to Publica employees to ensure their application is correct.

 

The Chief Executive commented that the policies would give a clear way forward for Cotswold District Council employees, and that the minor issues identified with the withdrawn could be dealt with under delegated authority.

 

In regards to questions around oversight to any changes, it was noted that the delegation to the Chief Executive would be overseen by Overview and Scrutiny Committee with an update report given once a year.

 

It was noted that the updated policies would be communicated through the relevant portals.

 

 

The recommendations were proposed by Councillor Harris and seconded by Councillor Evemy.

 

 

RESOLVED: That Cabinet

 

1) AGREED the twenty-three employment policies and the Health & Safety

Policy for consideration in Annex A.

2) DELEGATED authority to the Chief Executive to approve subsequent

amendments to any Cotswold District Council employment policies that may be necessary in line with legal changes and best practice to ensure the Council’s policies remain legally compliant.

3) DELEGATED authority to the Chief Executive to approve subsequent employment policies that come forward for approval.

 

 

Record of Voting – For: 8, Against 0, Abstention 0, Absent: 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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