Meeting documents

Employment Committee
Wednesday, 10th February, 2021 11.45 am

Business Items
 Public Participation (Standing Order 17 as amended by SO 5A)
 To receive written submissions from any person who wishes to address the Committee. The Chairman will select the order of the matters to be received.

Please ensure that any submissions meet the required time limits and can be read out in five minutes (up to a maximum of 30 minutes).

Requests and full statements must be submitted in writing to the Head of Legal and Democratic Services, or to the officer mentioned at the top of this agenda letter, by noon on the day before the meeting and the request must detail the subject matter of the address.
 Apologies for absence and notification of substitutes
 Declaration of Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (Standing Order 37)
 A Member must declare any disclosable pecuniary interest where it relates to any matter being considered at the meeting. A declaration of a disclosable pecuniary interest should indicate the interest and the agenda item to which it relates. A Member is not permitted to participate in this agenda item by law and should immediately leave the meeting before the start of any debate.

If the Member leaves the meeting in respect of a declaration, he or she should ensure that the Chairman is aware of this before he or she leaves to enable their exit from the meeting to be recorded in the minutes in accordance with Standing Order 37.
 Minutes
 7 July 2020, to approve as a correct record (attached)
 04 Minutes 070720
 Other - 04 Minutes 070720 
5Matters referred by Council, the Executive, other Committees and Panels
 None
6Exclusion of the press and public
 The Committee will be invited to pass the following resolution –

“(1) That the press, public, and officers not required by the Members, the Chief Executive or the Director, to remain during the exempt session, be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business on the ground that its consideration will involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Section 100I of the Local Government Act 1972.”

Also, if appropriate, the following resolution should be passed –

“(2) That members of the Council who are not members of this Committee be invited to remain.”

7Interviews for Director of Corporate Services post (exempt item)
 The Committee will conduct formal interviews with the shortlisted candidates.
Job pack attached. Exempt applications/CVs to follow.
 07 Director of Corporate Services Job Pack
 Other - 07 Director of Corporate Services Job Pack 
8Urgent business permitted by the Local Government Act 1972 (if any)
 Any item of business which the Chairman is of the opinion should be considered at the meeting as a matter of urgency by reason of special circumstances (to be specified in the Minutes). For a matter to be considered as an urgent item, the following question must be addressed:

“What harm to the public interest would flow from leaving it until the next meeting?” If harm can be demonstrated, then it is open to the Chairman to rule that it be considered as urgent. Otherwise the matter cannot be considered urgent within the statutory provisions.
 Minutes
 Minutes