Our Joint Consultative Committee consists of:
• Five councillors (including the chair and vice chair of the Management Committee) drawn from different member authorities
• The chair and secretary of our branch of UNISON
• The UNISON regional organiser responsible for liaising YPO
Frequency of meetings: Three times per annum, linked to Management Committee meetings
Quorum: Two councillors and two trade union officials
Substitutes: Allowed
Remit:
1. To represent and co-ordinate the views locally of UNISON and members of our Management Committee wherever possible on issues of common interest in relation to YPO.
2. To raise issues, make recommendations and reach agreement on issues which have an effect on our employees, but without binding effect on either party.
3. To monitor and challenge the outputs of any employee satisfaction survey.
4. To promote the well-being of employees and monitor and challenge matters related to sickness and attendance.
5. To promote, challenge and monitor our actions in relation to it being an employer of choice and its equality impact assessments.
6. To review annually its terms of reference and report any additions and amendments to the Management Committee.
7. To submit to each annual meeting of the Management Committee a report of its activities during the previous year.
TU Facility time for website 2024
The only Union recognised by YPO for collective consultation is UNISON.
As well as the Branch Chair and Branch Secretary there are 5 workplace and safety representatives which equates to 7 FTE.
All representatives spent between 1% - 50% of their time accounted to Trace Union Facility time.
In this period, a total of 1712.25 working hours were spent on facility time which includes union duties (time supporting YPO employees) and union activities (time spent for the Trade Union). Paid union activities to total facility time as a percentage, was 15.66%.
Spending on unions facility time from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024, was £28,699.38 which equates to 0.14% of YPO’s total pay bill for that period.
If you have any enquiries as to the information on this page please contact Tamsin Dunkerley, HR Manager on email [email protected].