20 October 2025 -HR Committee
Dear Councillor,
You are hereby summoned to attend a meeting of the HR Committee for Ruskington Parish Council which will be held on Monday 20 October 2025 at 9am at Ruskington Parish Office, 7-9 High Street North, Ruskington, NG34 9DY. Members of the public and press are welcome to attend. All members of the HR Committee are summoned to attend for the purpose of considering and resolving upon the business to be transacted at the meeting, as set out hereunder.
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Signed: K. H. Locke Clerk to Ruskington Parish Council |
K H Locke
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Dated: 14 October 2025 |
Agenda
1. To receive and accept apologies where valid reasons for absence have been given to the Parish Clerk prior to the meeting.
2. To receive declarations of interest and to consider applications for dispensations in relation to DPIs.
3. To approve as a correct record the notes of the last HR Committee meeting held on 14 July 2025.
4. To review the following policies:
4.1. Volunteer policy.
4.2. Health & Safety Policy
5. To confirm a date and time for the next HR Committee meeting, if required, and consider any items for the agenda.
6. To resolve whether to exclude the public and press, in accordance with the Public Bodies (Admissions to Meetings) Act 1960, to discuss the staffing matters below. Should this resolution be passed, members of the public and press will be required to leave the meeting. The meeting will end, and a further meeting of the Council will be convened immediately.
7. To review and confirm the draft letter to staff following comments made at appraisals for recommending to Council at its next meeting on 11 November 2025.
8. To consider the proposals for changes to staff job descriptions following annual appraisals and informal consultation with the relevant staff members for recommending to Council.
8.1. To consider the comments from a staff member regarding the proposed changes to their job description.
8.2. To agree the Committee member to undertake for staff consultations, if required, with the Clerk, following Council’s approval of amendments to staff job descriptions.
9. To consider correspondence from a staff member to increase their hours to full time, and agree a date from which this should commence, for recommending to Council at its meeting on 14 October 2025.
10. To consider the requirement for a third caretaker and make any recommendation to Council at its meeting on 11 November 2025.
11. To review staff pay for FY 2026-2027 and agree any amendments for recommending to Council at its meeting on 11 November 2025.
12. To review Council’s contribution to staff pensions for FY 2026-2027, in view of reserves, and agree any amendments for recommending to Council its meeting on 11 November 2025.
End of agenda.