Issue - meetings

(i)           to note the sickness rates over the past 6 months;

(ii)          to endorse the approaches for reducing sickness absence across the Council; and

(iii)         to note that the content of the report would develop to reflect the Council’s new operating model with sickness absence figures to be presented by Chief Officer and also that relevant benchmarking figures would be reflected in the report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which outlined the current sickness rates across the Council and the range of measures used to get the figures moving on a downward trend.

The report recommended:-                            

that the Committee –

(a)       note the sickness rates over the past 6 months; and

(b)       endorse the approaches for reducing sickness absence across the Council.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)           to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)          to note that the content of the report would develop to reflect the Council’s new operating model with sickness absence figures to be presented by Chief Officer and also that relevant benchmarking figures would be included in the report.