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Items
No. Item

5/18

Apologies for Absence and Temporary Appointments

Minutes:

An apology for absence was received from Councillor Lynda Atkins.

6/18

Minutes pdf icon PDF 121 KB

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 23 January 2018 (RC3) and to receive information arising from them.

Minutes:

The Minutes of the meeting held on 23 January 2018 were approved and signed as a correct record.

Exempt Item

RESOLVED:             that the public be excluded for the duration of item RC6       since it is likely that if they were present during that item there would be disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended) and specified below in relation to those items and since it is considered that, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

PROCEEDINGS FOLLOWING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

7/18

Gender Pay Gap Reporting pdf icon PDF 432 KB

Report by Director of Human Resources (RC5).

 

The report gives an overview of Oxfordshire County Council's Gender Pay Gap which is required under The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017. It gives a brief overview of the Gender Pay Gap, the requirements we are obliged to meet and a comparison with other employers. Finally, this report gives a high-level overview of planned communication of our Gender Pay Gap. 

 

Annex 1 to th report provides details of Oxfordshire County Council’s Gender Pay Gap as required under The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017.

 

The Remuneration Committee is RECOMMENDED to note and agree the figures for publication.

 

Minutes:

The Committee had before it a report (RC5) which provided an overview of Oxfordshire County Council's Gender Pay Gap which was required under The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017. The report gave a brief summary of the Gender Pay Gap, the requirements the Council were obliged to meet and a comparison with other employers. Finally, the report set out a high-level overview of planned communication of the council’s Gender Pay Gap. 

 

Annex 1 to the report provided details of Oxfordshire County Council’s Gender Pay Gap as required under The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017.

 

The Committee noted that Oxfordshire County Council did not have any Equal Pay concerns and welcomed the comparators reports set out at Annex 2.

 

The Committee further indicated that it would wish to receive a further report after 31 March when all 9,000 organisations had reported to identify where Oxfordshire fell on the scale and requested that the information be added to the Equalities Policy and Corporate Plan.

 

Councillor Brighouse asked that Ethnicity and Age be given further consideration.

 

RESOLVED: (nem con)to note and agree the figures for publication.

8/18

Quarterly Redundancy Report

The information contained in the report is exempt in that it falls within the following prescribed category:

 

2        Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual

 

It is considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

Report by Director of Human Resources

 

This report gives an overview of the Change programmes that have resulted in redundancy in Quarter 3 (October to December 2017). It provides details of:

the number of redundancies

the number of redeployments

the total costs including pension costs

pension costs alone    

 

The report also includes an overview of the change programmes that may result in Quarter 4 redudancies.

 

The Remuneration Committee is RECOMMENDED to note the figures.

 

Minutes:

The information contained in the report was exempt in that it fell within the following prescribed category:

 

2        Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual

 

It was considered that in this case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information, in that such disclosure would infringe the rights of the individual to privacy contrary to the general law and the duty of the authority to respect human rights and to comply with that law and contrary to the authority’s duties as a fair employer.

Report by Director of Human Resources

 

The Committee considered a report which provided an overview of the Change programmes that had resulted in redundancy in Quarter 3 (October to December 2017): including the number of redundancies; the number of redeployments; the total costs including pension costs and pension costs alone.   

 

The report also included an overview of the change programmes that may result in Quarter 4 redundancies.

 

Following consideration of the report it was RESOLVED (nem con) to note the figures.