8 Redundancy and redeployment - activity update
Report of Assistant Director for Human Resources and Transformation
Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Colin Swansborough
Exempt information reasons 1 and 2: Information relating to an individual or likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
Decision:
(Key decision):
(1) To note the actions taken to manage implications of change for displaced individuals through support, redeployment and assistance with self-marketing under the redundancy and redeployment procedure.
(2) To agree the financial implications of severance for those identified.
Minutes:
The Cabinet considered the report of the Assistant Director for Human Resources and Transformation, setting out current activity within the redundancy and redeployment procedure and describing action taken to support affected individuals.
The Cabinet expressed their sincere thanks for the service of those staff that had left the authority during the pandemic.
Resolved (Key decision):
(1) To note the actions taken to manage implications of change for displaced individuals through support, redeployment and assistance with self-marketing under the redundancy and redeployment procedure.
(2) To agree the financial implications of severance for those identified.
Reasons for decisions:
(1) The Corporate Management Team (CMT) is able to offer Voluntary Redundancy on a discretionary basis and made the decision during 2020, as a result of the significant financial challenges as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, to take applications for a limited 2-week period.
(2) These applications were individually considered by CMT in September 2020 and those approved and accepted then had mutually agreed leaving dates between October 2020 and 31 March 2021. This meant that following information transfer and handovers, these presented in year savings.
Notes: (1) The report remains confidential. (2) Exempt information reasons 1 and 2 – Information relating to an individual or likely to reveal the identity of an individual.