- Conference
- 2006 Local Government Service Group Conference
- Date
- 24 February 2006
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference notes that NJC and the Scottish Joint Council staff must have continuous service in order to be entitled to any benefits including the ‘long service’ award (an extra 5 days holiday after 5 years service) and that this specifically disadvantages women who are more likely to have taken career breaks and will therefore have greater difficulty accruing the relevant service. Conference believes that this anomaly needs to be addressed and that aggregate service should count the same as continuous service for the purposes of calculating these benefits.
Conference therefore instructs the Local Government SGE to liaise with the NEC and the other Service Groups to secure rationalisation of service conditions so that members, especially women, are not penalised by existing requirements of continuous service.
Thus the conditions of service should allow all relevant staff to aggregate previous service with any public body to which the Redundancy payments (Continuity of Employment in Local government etc (Modification)(amendment) Order 2002 and any subsequent orders applies, any related voluntary body (either funded by, or working co-operatively with local authorities) and any other employing agency operating under these service conditions, irrespective of any break of service.
Furthermore Conference instructs the Local Government SGE to work with the NEC and the other Service Groups to seek to alter the redundancy payments modification order so that employment with any form of public body or former public body should be included