The production of a pay policy supports our values of openness and fairness. This policy aims to ensure that all staff are rewarded fairly and without discrimination for the work that they do. It will reflect fairness and equality of opportunity, the need to encourage and enable staff to perform to the best of their ability and the desire to operate a transparent pay and grading structure.

Gender Pay Gap Report

The purpose of Gender Pay Gap reporting is to achieve greater gender equality across the UK and increase pay transparency.

The Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations apply to employers in the public and private sector. The Regulations require all employers with 250 or more employees to report their Gender Pay Gap annually on the “snapshot” date, publishing on a national Government website as well as the organisations website. The “snapshot” date for the public sector is 31st March each year.

Social Partnership Duty Report

Social partnership is a collaborative approach, designed to pursue mutual gains within the context of policy development and implementation, or operational change. It works on the basic principle that more can be achieved by employers and workers, predominantly through their trade unions, by working together in a spirit of co-operation and collaboration, to address economic, social, and workplace issues.

The Social Partnership Duty applies to the forty-eight public bodies listed in section 6(1) of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, of which Monmouthshire County Council is one. Therefore, Monmouthshire County Council must meet four statutory requirements, including the publication an annual report detailing compliance with the Social Partnership Duty, which will integrate social partnership principles into our activities and ensure that trade unions are actively engaged in decision-making processes, particularly in areas impacting the workforce.