Decision details

The Cabinet Member for Customer Services and Human Resources presented the draft Pay Policy Statement for the Council for 2012/13.

The Localism Act 2011 required all local authorities to publish an annual statement of its pay policy, covering areas such as the level and elements of remuneration for each chief officer and the relationship between the remuneration of chief officers, other officers and its “lowest paid employees”.  The Cabinet Member advised that the Council’s previous decisions to reduce the level of Chief Executive pay and to implement the London Living Wage meant that the ratio between the highest and lowest paid employees was 1:10, which compared very favourably to the Hutton review recommendation that the ratio should not be greater than 1:20.  The Cabinet Member also referred to an amendment that would be made to the policy prior to its submission to the Assembly.

Cabinet agreed to recommend the Assembly to approve the Pay Policy Statement for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for 2012/13, for publication with effect from 1 April 2012.