Decision details

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The Committee considered a report on compensation arrangements for a compulsory reduction in hours.

It was reported that the Council had historically compensated employees who experienced a reduction in their working hours as a result of a change in business needs, or restructuring of service provision, in accordance with the voluntary redundancy payments calculation, where the employee received a compensation payment for the number of working hours they lost.

The multiplier used in these situations had been 1.8, based on the voluntary redundancy multiplier in place prior to 1 April 2014.  The Committee was informed that a decision was now needed on whether the new voluntary redundancy multiplier, agreed by Cabinet on 9 May 2014 and set out in the Council's Redundancy Payments Scheme, should be applied for any future dated 'agreed' compensation payments.

Resolved: 

1.  That the multiplier, as set out in the Redundancy Payments Scheme, applicable from 1 April 2014, be used in the compensation calculation for employees who experience a compulsory reduction in their working hours.

2.  That future changes to the voluntary redundancy multiplier should be automatically applied as the basis for this calculation going forwards.