Agenda item

The Executive was advised that it was proposed that a 1% cost of living rise for 2016/17 be awarded to staff and back dated to the 1st April 2016.   The costs would be funded from existing budgets.

A number of points had been considered when deciding the level of this cost of living rise which included what other councils in the surrounding area were paying, the National award of 1%, and the objective of ensuring the Council remained an employer of choice and continued to provide excellent service to the community.

Recommended to Full Council a 1% pay award for 2016/17, to be met from the existing salaries budgets.

(Note: In relation to the above item, the following interests were declared and the Members were not present for its consideration:

(a)   Councillor Rodney Bates, for the record, as an employee of a neighbouring local authority; and

(b)   Councillor Richard Brooks, a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest, as his wife was employed by the Council.