Issue - meetings

The Executive Director, Finance and Resources introduced the report and explained that under the Localism Act it was a requirement that local authorities produced a Pay Statement, which needed to be approved by full Council.  That statement must include the following:

·         The remuneration of its chief officers

·         The remuneration of its lowest-paid employees and the relationship between the remuneration of its chief officers and the remuneration of its employees who are not chief officers.

Due to the figures within the Pay Statement being rounded, the Executive Director, Finance and Resources highlighted to Members the following amendments:

·         Executive Director - National determined rate – Minimum £92,604 (cost to Bromsgrove becomes £47,212)

·         Deputy Chief Executive – National determined rate – Minimum £101,979 (cost to Bromsgrove becomes £51,507)

An explanation was provided in respect of the Council’s pay and grading structure and the increased for grades as agreed by the National Joint Council.  For senior roles, these posted had been Hay evaluated and the report gave details of the workings of this scheme and the process.  The external assessor used for the Council for the Hay Job Evaluation Scheme was West Midlands Councils, a regional grouping of the Local Government Association who were used widely for this purpose.

It was confirmed that it was a statutory requirement to produce this document and the Council would be see as being non-compliant if it did not do so.  It was noted that the cost of the senior management team actually 50% of the overall cost in line with the Shared Service agreement with Redditch Borough Council.

RECOMMENDED that the Pay Policy as detailed in Appendix 1 to the report be approved.