Issue - meetings

– report by Mrs Amanda Beer, Director of Personnel & Development) (Mr Colin Miller, Reward Manager was present for this item)

(1)       As part of the Council’s proposals for structural change an evaluation by the Hay Group had been undertaken of the County Council’s new top posts.  The evaluation looked at the role and complexity of each post and made recommendations as to future grade and pay. The Hay Group report also looked at performance management and presented recommendations as on the development of a framework drawing on the Council’s existing approach to performance management against which future performance and competence could be fairly judged and objectively assessed.

(2)       During the course of discussion members raised a number of points of detail to which officers responded accordingly.  Mr Gough then proposed and Mr Lynes seconded that the recommendations in the report should be approved with the pay band option of a market median pay band of +7/-10% being adopted as shown in the third column of appendix 1 to the report.

Carried 7:0 with 1 abstention.

(3)       With the adoption of the +7/-10% market median pay band, members agreed that officers should look to ‘smooth’ out overlaps in pay bands and the gaps between KR15 and KR16.

(3)       Resolved that to paragraph 3 (3) above

(i)  the proposed model and performance management approach proposed by the HayGroup be endorsed as being the best for KCC’s current and future needs; and

(ii) The County Council at its meeting on 16 December 2010 be asked to endorse this recommendation and to adopt the +7/-10% market median pay band option as shown in the third column of Appendix 1 to the report.