Apology: UPDATED: Barnet Council the Tale of “Three Chief Executives and one plumber
Dear Barnet UNISON Members
Following some complaints about some pay inaccuracies in our post entitled:
“UPDATED: Barnet Council the Tale of “Three Chief Executives and one plumber””
UNISON has updated the salary information.
To view updated article, click on link to our website here.
At the same time, we have been informed that we will be given complete set of information about all four posts above including what is referred to a ‘oncosts’ for each role to ensure fairness and transparency.
Once we have this information we will update the articlle again.
Following the complaint, we had chance to think about our attempts for transparency and openness about spend particularly since the Council announced a serious financial crisis and the need to find £20million in savings in this financial year.
The Localism Act 2011 – Openness and accountability in local pay 1.1. Section 38(1) of the Localism Act 2011 requires local authorities to publish an annual pay policy statement.
The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 issued in February 2015 by the then Department for Communities and Local Government; and specific guidance relevant to the Localism Act issued by the Department in February 2012 and February 2013.
To comply with the above legislation Barnet Council, publish their Pay Policy document each year which shows the pay for all posts above £58k.
Barnet UNISON has reflected on this and has subsequently requested for the same transparency to be applied to TBG and BELS whereby each year the salaries that meet the criteria set out in the legislation above are published either by TBG and BELS or they are published alongside Barnet Council Annual Pay Policy each year.
Barnet UNISONs preference would be the reports would be submitted together to ensure that there is full transparency over Council spending on staff.
We are awaiting a response and will update members accordingly.
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