Issue - meetings

Assembly received and noted this report on the draft Pay Policy Statement for the Council for 2012/13, introduced by the Cabinet Member for Customer Services and Human Resources.

It was noted that 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 favourably to the Hutton Review recommendation that the ratio should not be greater than 1:20.  

The Cabinet Member referred to an amendment to figures in paragraph 5.6 of the report in that there were 9 posts at CO3 level and 3 posts at CO4 level.

Assembly agreed to approve the Pay Policy Statement for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for 2012/13 as attached at Appendix A to the report, subject to the amendment of paragraph 5.6 as set out above.

The Pay Policy Statement document referred to in the report is available to view on the Council’s website (see link above).

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.