Key Issues We Are Addressing

Policy team

• Implement strategy to avoid/minimise equal pay challenges
• Implement outcomes of Job Evaluation exercise in a phased plan to be completed by April 2007
• Produce list of options for negotiation to harmonise these Part 3 Single Status terms & conditions
• Development of improved HR data reporting and workforce profiling information.
• Flexible working promotion
• Raise awareness of work-life balance/flexible working opportunities
• Increase take-up of home-based working
• Improve recording incidences of flexible working methods
• Pensions review in response to proposed changes April 05 and April 08.
• Improved awareness of major HR policies across M4 and M3 manager tiers by Manager Awareness sessions (via RBT advice & guidance team)
• Development of new Redeployment policy, travelling & subsistence, Dignity at Work policy

Partnerships team

• Improve skills for life in the workforce (literacy and numeracy)
• Improve employee perceptions of levels of stress
• Increase the representation of women and black and minority ethnic (BME) workers at senior levels and raise the proportion of BME and disabled workers amongst the workforce as a whole
• Improve opportunities for young workers in the Council

People team

• Developing "Exchange" - a variety of methods of employee involvement
• Managing the assessment of the Council against the Investors in People standard
• Running the current in-house management development programme and developing a new mamagement development programme
• Implementing development centres for managers
• Piloting the new workforce planning framework and supporting departments in its application