Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)        in respect of the discussion around absence, particularly in Operations, to request that officers investigate whether the data included on the average days absent per employee could be broken down further and ideally by cluster in future reports, in order to be able to identify particular areas where there might be greater levels of absence;

(ii)       to note the sickness rates over the past six months; and

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

With reference to article 7 of the minute of its meeting of 4 May 2018, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which outlined the current sickness rates across the Council and improvement activities being undertaken.

The report recommended:-

that Committee –

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

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

The Committee resolved:-

(i)        in respect of the discussion around absence, particularly in Operations, to request that officers investigate whether the data included on the average days absent per employee could be broken down further and ideally by cluster in future reports, in order to be able to identify particular areas where there might be greater levels of absence; and

(ii)       to approve the recommendations.