1
Personnel Committee
Composition:
Seven Councillors in political balance. Chair appointed by Council
annually. Where the Committee meets to appoint a Chief Executive,
Director or Deputy Director (also known as JNC Chief Officers) or
appoints a Sub-Committee/Panel to deal with disciplinary,
grievance, capability matters or appeals, the Committee will
include at least one Cabinet member.
All
members of the Committee and Councillors attending as substitutes
must:
(a) have undertaken mandatory training on the relevant
law and procedures that relate to the Committee’s work; and
must
(b) undertake further mandatory training, on an ad hoc
basis, when there are changes to procedure or relevant legislation
that are deemed to be significant by the relevant
Director.
Terms
of Reference:
To deal with the appointment of
JNC Chief Officer level posts and to determine the terms and
conditions on which staff are employed.
In particular the Committee
will:
1.1
Develop and review Council policy in respect of
human resources, staff and conditions of service
including:
(a)
Recruitment and retention;
(b)
The “Raising Concerns” Whistleblowing,
disciplinary, capability, grievance and harassment;
(c)
Redeployment, redundancy, early retirement and
severance;
(d)
Sickness absence;
(e)
Employee and organisational development,
apprentices; and
(f)
Health and Safety
and welfare.
1.2
The Personnel Committee will also:
(a)
Consider and recommend to Council the Annual Pay
Policy Statement.
(b)
Appoint a Panel (usually of three) from the
Committee including at least one Cabinet member to consider appeals
against dismissal, grading and grievances by JNC Chief Officers
(except that there shall be no appeal against dismissal for the
Chief Executive, Chief Finance Officer or Monitoring
Officer).
(c)
Appoint to and make decisions in respect of
redundancy and redeployment for JNC Chief Officer posts.
(d)
Consider and deal with requests for voluntary
severance, including early retirement and/or voluntary
redundancy.
(e)
Appoint a Panel of (usually of three) from the
Committee, including at least one Cabinet member, assisted by one
independent adviser, to act as an Appraisal Panel (as required by
the JNC Conditions of Service for Chief Executives and Chief
Officers) for the Chief Executive;
(f)
Appoint, when required, an “Investigation and
Disciplinary Committee” referred to in the JNC Conditions of
Service for Chief Executives and Chief Officers; with power to
appoint an independent investigator and independent advisors, if
required; and to suspend the Chief Executive, if considered
appropriate. Where the Investigation and Disciplinary Committee
makes a recommendation to Full Council to dismiss a Chief
Executive, Chief Finance Officer or Monitoring Officer then the
Independent Persons Panel must meet and consider the matter and
prepare a report for Council before any decision to dismiss is
considered by Full Council;
(g)
Consider and respond to consultation requests in
respect of national pay negotiations and determine pay
awards;
(h)
Determine any other personnel or HR matter that
is not delegated to officers.
1.3
The seven members of the Personnel Committee shall
represent Lancaster City Council on the
Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) as the employer
representatives.