2020-05-12 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                  12 MAY 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                        RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                               CURRENT PRIORITIES                               THE NEXT QUARTER
2019/2020 Training Budget                   People and Culture Support Officer has           Review of the training budget with              Minimal essential training to be
-The People and Culture team took             been working with business areas to make           very limited essential training to occur        completed as available.
over administration of the training           arrangements for mandatory training where          up to the end of financial year due to
budget in September 2018 and has              possible. This has increased the amount of         COVID-19 impacts.
ensured it was used for maximum               essential training that has taken place,
benefit to staff and Council.                 especially in Civil Operations.




Workforce Planning                          Put on hold due to COVID19 priorities.           Put on hold due to COVID19 priorities         Work with Departments to
                                                                                                                                                 identify key priority areas and
                                                                                                                                                 commence operational workforce
                                                                                                                                                 planning incl. the identification of
                                                                                                                                                 actionable strategies and
                                                                                                                                                 addressing specific workforce
                                                                                                                                                 gaps.
Councils Drug and Alcohol Policy and      Random testing put on hold due to               Review of Drug and Alcohol policy to             Re-commence random testing.
Procedure                                   COVID19.                                          incorporate pre-employment medicals.
Employee Relations                        P&C Advisors and Managers received              Resolution of any emerging workplace             Prepare for commencement of
                                            training from the Human Rights                     issues.                                           enterprise bargaining for the new
                                            Commission in managing and investigating        Review of P&C policies to ensure they              Certified Agreement.
                                            complaints under the Anti- Discrimination         are compliant under the Anti-
                                            Act.                                              Discrimination Act.
Business as Usual activities                Provide frontline response services to the    Extension to the current Employee                Continue to provide response
Support the organisation with payroll,        COVID19 Taskforce Team including                 Assistance Programme contract for a               services to the COVID19
work health and safety, recruitment,          employee relations, wellbeing, deployment        further six months.                               Taskforce Team including
on-boarding and workplace relations.          opportunities, implementing working from      Provide response services as part of               strategies to potentially bring
                                              home arrangements and supporting                 the COVID19 Taskforce Team.                       employees back in to the
                                              employees who were stood down due to          Establish employee wellbeing site-                 workplace and re-engagement of
                                              the closure of Council facilities.               “Nourish” as a resource Hub for                   the casual workforce.
                                            14 positions advertised from 1/1-31/3/20.        council employees.
                                            27 workplace incidents reported
                                            No notifiable incidents




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