Meeting documents

Human Resources and Appeals Panel
Thursday, 20th October, 2011 3.30 pm

Date:
Thursday, 20th October, 2011
Time:
3.30 pm
Place:
Town Hall, Bury
 

Attendance Details

Present:
Councillor T Holt (In the Chair), Councillors D Cassidy and J Harris.
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Item Description Decision
Open
HRA.311 DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
Preamble for item HRA.311
 
HRA.312 DRAFT FLEXIBLE RETIREMENT POLICY
Preamble for item HRA.312
It was agreed:

That the flexible retirement policy be approved.
HRA.313 EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
 Delegated Decision:

That, in accordance with Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business since it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information.
Exempt
HRA.314 APPLICATIONS FOR VOLUNTARY EARLY RETIREMENT/SEVERANCE
  
The Meeting started at 3.30pm and ended at 4.00pm

Preamble

Preamble
ItemPreamble
HRA.311No declarations of interest were made in relation to any items on the agenda.
HRA.312Guy Berry presented the Panel with the Draft Flexible Retirement Policy. It was explained that the Policy had been consulted on by a number of different groups including the Corporate Joint Consultative Committee.

Flexible retirement would give members of the Local Government Pension Scheme the option to start receiving all or some of their pension benefits from an earlier age whilst stepping down into a less demanding and lower paid role or reducing their working hours.

Applications for flexible retirement would only be considered if they are in the interest of efficiency of the service. Employees who retire on flexible retirement would not qualify for a redundancy payment.

It was also explained that an application for flexible retirement would only be considered if the amount of money the employee would receive per month (salary + pension) was less than the employee was receiving prior to the flexible retirement commencing.