MINUTES

OF THE MEETING OF THE

Employment Committee

Thursday 13th November 2003

HELD AT THE TOWN HALL, WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET.

Meeting Commenced: 2.33 p.m. Meeting Concluded: 4.23 p.m.

PRESENT: Councillors Ian Peddlesden, Isabel Cummings, John Crockford Hawley (substitute for Alan Hockridge), Muriel Kraft, Howard Roberts, Roz Willis (substitute for Ron Moon).

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: Councillors Peter Fisher, Alan Hockridge, Ron Moon .

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Election of Chairman

RESOLVED: that Councillor Peddlesden be elected Chairman for the meeting.

EMP 10

Minutes of the meeting held on 7th July 2003 (Agenda Item 4.1)

RESOLVED: that the minutes of the meeting held on 7th July 2003 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

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Exclusion of the Press and Public

RESOLVED:

(1) that the press, public and officers not required by the Members or officers advising, to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business on the ground that their consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972;

(2) that Members of the Council who are not Members of this Committee be invited to remain.

Item Reason for Exemption

Minute No. 11 Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972

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Appeal Against Grading – Grievance Appeal - MC0103 (Agenda Item 6)- EXEMPT ITEM

The Chairman welcomed those present to the meeting and asked those persons to introduce themselves.

Mr. C was appealing against a grading decision. During the hearing he was represented by Mrs L. Youlton (Unison). The case for the Management was presented by Mr. R. Kent.

The Chairman outlined the procedure to be followed.

The case for the Appellant was presented by his Unison representative, Mrs L. Youlton.

The case for the Management was presented by Mr. R. Kent, Development Control Group Manager. Members of the Committee asked questions of the Appellant’s Unison representative and the Management representative.

The parties summed up and then left the room to enable the Committee to consider the matter.

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AT 3.40 P.M. THE APPELLANT AND HIS REPRESENTATIVE AND THE MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE THEN WITHDREW FROM THE MEETING TO ENABLE MEMBERS TO DELIBERATE AND REACH A DECISION

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With all parties present the Chairman announced that after due consideration the Committee had reached its decision as follows:

RESOLVED: that the following statement be agreed as the Committee’s decision:

“That this is a complex issue given the length of time these matters have been under consideration and the changes that have happened in terms of the new structure in planning and building control.

Essentially we are being asked to agree that the subsequent successful job evaluation appeal has revealed additional information that would have altered the decision to exclude consideration of the new co-ordinator post.

Even with this additional information, the Committee is unable to agree that the post held prior to the restructuring is substantially the same. The new co-ordinator post in our view, has different responsibilities and the decision to treat this as a new post was reasonable.

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Chairman

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