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(a)          approve the addition of 5 days’ paid leave for Cadet Force Adult Volunteers within our workforce into the Special Leave Policy;

(b)          2.2 approve the provision of offering employees contractual pay for Parental Bereavement leave; and

(c)          2.3 thereby approve the amended Special Leave Policy as attached at Appendix 1 to the report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer of Organisational Development which sought approval to make changes to the Special Leave Policy to add a provision for 5 days paid leave for Cadet Force Adult Volunteers as part of the Council’s commitment to staff who support the Armed Forces, and to add a provision offering employees contractual pay for Parental Bereavement leave.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee -

(a)       approve the addition of 5 days paid leave for Cadet Force Adult Volunteers within our workforce into the Special Leave Policy;

(b)       approve the provision of offering employees contractual pay for Parental Bereavement leave; and

(c)        thereby approve the amended Special Leave Policy as attached at Appendix 1 to the report.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.