Issue - meetings

Council

Agreed          to approve the updated Pay Policy Statement as required by the Localism Act 2011.

Councillor John Williams presented this annual report noting that the Council was obliged to agree it under the Localism Act 2011. He was pleased to announce that the authority had paid a minimum wage of £11, which was more than the real living wage that had been declared by the Living Wage Foundation in the autumn. He explained that the ratio between the lowest and highest paid was less than 1:8 and that the mean hourly rate between women and men was 10.51% in favour of women. Councillor Pippa Heylings expressed her pride in the fact that the Council was paying all its staff more than the national real living wage and in the fact that the authority had so many women in senior management positions.

Councillor John Williams proposed and Councillor Pippa Heylings seconded the recommendation in the report. A vote was taken and by affirmation

Council

Agreed          to approve the updated Pay Policy Statement as required by the Localism Act 2011.