Issue - meetings

          RECOMMENDED: That Council adopts this Pay Policy Statement for the Financial Year 2025/26.

          The Council considered a report of the Corporate Director, Chief Executive’s Delivery Unit, on the Pay Policy Statement for 2025/26.

          The Localism Act 2011 required every local authority to prepare a Pay Policy Statement each year, which detailed the Council’s approach to a range of issues relating to the pay of its employees, principally its senior staff (Chief Officers) and the Authority’s lowest paid employees.

          The purpose of the Statement was to provide transparency with regards to the Council’s approach to setting the pay of its employees by identifying the following:-

·       The methods by which salaries of all employees were determined;

·       The details and level of remuneration of its most senior staff (i.e. its Chief Officers) as defined by relevant legislation; and

·       The Committee responsible for ensuring the provisions set out in the Statement were applied consistently throughout the Council and recommending any amendments to the Full Council.

The following information was included in the report:-

·                  Background to the Pay Structure;

·                  Senior Management Remuneration;

·                  Recruitment of Chief Officers;

·                  Additions to Salaries of Chief Officers;

·                  Pensions Contributions;

·                  Payments on Termination;

·                  Publication of the Statement;

·                  Lowest Paid Employees; and

·                  Accountability and Decision Making.

          RESOLVED: That the Pay Policy Statement for the Financial Year 2025/26 be adopted.