Minutes for Employees Committee (Appeals) meeting, Nov 21 2011, 10.15AM official page

As the membership of the Employees Committee (Appeals) varies from meeting to meeting, the Committee is advised that its membership is governed by the following rules:-

1)    Membership of the Employees Committee must be politically        balanced.

2)    Membership of the Committee will be five made up of Members appointed by the Monitoring Officer in consultation with the political group whips.

3)    The Committee will elect one of their number to be the Chair.

4)    The Committee’s quorum shall be three.

The Chief Executive or relevant Director (or nominated deputy) and a Personnel Officer (who may be from a different department) shall act as advisors to the Committee.

The Committee is asked to note the membership arrangements

PRIVATE SESSION

AGENDA

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO NOTE

Under the law, the Committee is entitled to consider certain items in private. Members of the public will be asked to leave the meeting when such items are discussed.

The Committee is recommended to consider the following item in private on the grounds that it contains ‘exempt’ information, as defined by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, and consequently that the Committee makes the following resolution :-

‘that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, namely information relating to an individual, and taking all the circumstances into account, it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

The Appellant’s Statement of Case and the Management’s Statement of Case are attached for all parties along with a collection of background and general information.