Agenda and minutes

Staffing Committee - Wednesday, 7th December, 2016 12.30 pm

Venue: Meeting Room 1 - Fire Service HQ, Sadler Road, Winsford, Cheshire CW7 2FQ. View directions

Contact: Joanne Smith 

Items
No. Item

1.

PROCEDURAL MATTERS

1A

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

No apologies were received for this meeting.

1B

Declaration of Members' Interests

Members are reminded that the Members’ Code of Conduct requires the disclosure of Statutory Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, Non-Statutory Disclosable Pecuniary Interests and Disclosable Non-Pecuniary Interests.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of Members’ interests.

1C

Minutes of the last meeting pdf icon PDF 120 KB

To approve the minutes of the Staffing Committee held on 28th June 2016.

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED: That

 

The minutes of the meeting of the Staffing Committee held on 28th June 2016 be approved as a correct record.

2.

Exclusion of Press and Public pdf icon PDF 43 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

That under Section 100(A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Order 2006, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the items of business listed below on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A to the Act in the paragraphs indicated.

 

Business to be discussed in private:

 

Item

Item 3: Re-Employment – Technical Fire Safety Officer

 

Paragraph

(1)          Information relating to any individual

(2)       Information that is likely to reveal the identity of an individual

 

3.

Re-employment - Technical Fire Safety Officer

Minutes:

The Head of People and Development introduced this report which sought approval to appoint an individual to a Technical Fire Safety Officer (TFSO)  position following his retirement from Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service.

                       

The Head of People and Development provided Members with a summary of the recruitment and selection process that had taken place and the business case in support of the appointment.

 

Members discussed the appointment and asked officers for re-assurance as to the Authority’s position in relation to the re-employment of the retiring individual.  Members were satisfied that officers had provided assurance that the requirements of the Re-Employment and Pension Abatement Policy in respect of re-engagement had been met and agreed that the appointment should be approved.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

[1]      the appointment of a retained former employee to the role of Technical Fire Safety Officer on a part time basis be approved.