Issue - meetings
QUARTERLY REPORT ON EXCEPTIONS TO THE SICKNESS POLICY
Meeting: 10/09/2018 - Employment Committee (Item 16)
16 QUARTERLY REPORT ON EXEMPTIONS TO THE SICKNESS POLICY
To consider a verbal report of the Corporate Director of People.
Minutes:
The Corporate Director of People told the Committee that there had been 4 requests for continuation and all had been agreed. One had been for a three month extension and the rest had been for 1 month extensions whilst HR gathered more information.
A Member of the Committee asked for clarification as to what the Councils obligations were. The Corporate Director of People detailed the Councils policy for sickness and explained that the policy had been designed so that the Council could make judgments on a case by case basis where extended sickness occurred. The Corporate Director of People informed the Committee that all of the exemptions that had been requested elated to severe long term health conditions.
RESOLVED: That the update be noted by the Committee.
