Issue - meetings

This report requests Members to consider a pay award of 2% for employees for 2022/23.

The report of the Chief Executive requested Members to consider a pay award of 2% for employees for 2022/23.  Members noted that Council employees had a term in their contracts which read ‘Salaries will be revised on 1 April each year by an amount determined by the Authority having regard to movements in the Retail Price Index, comparative pay settlements and prevailing economic conditions’ and that the Council therefore determined its own pay awards and was not tied into the national process of collective bargaining.  A supplement, circulated in advance of the meeting, provided details of a number of issues and concerns raised with UNISON by staff in respect of the increased costs and financial challenges they faced due to current economic circumstances.  Members acknowledged the value of staff and the effort that employees had continued to make during a challenging period but expressed concern that any increase in the pay award would have a detrimental effect on the Council’s ability to maintain services and could lead to redundancies. 

RESOLVED: That a 2.0% pay award, from 1 April 2022, be agreed.