2018-02-06 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                        6 FEBRUARY 2018


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
Business as Usual activities                 Processed 11 insurance claims, 6           Review of Governance Policies,              Further formalise team procedures.
                                               Administrative Action Complaints,            which are schedule for review.                Coordinate Complaints Management
                                               and 1 Right to Information                                                                 to be delivered to relevant staff.
                                               application.
People and Culture
Negotiating the new Certified Agreement      Form of draft CA agreement in its          Continuing negotiations and to reach        All unions indicated agreement with
                                               final stages.                                agreement on a new Certified                  the draft CA at the meeting on 9
                                             Council information sessions held at         Agreement with minimum disruption             January. After this the Services
                                               all Council sites.                           to operations and while continuing            Union and the AWU, following
                                                                                            healthy workplace relations.                  employee meetings, have withdrawn
                                                                                                                                          their agreement.
                                                                                                                                        Certification of the Agreement and
                                                                                                                                          implementation.
Developing a 2017- 2020 People and           This was endorsed by the Executive         Implementing and communication              Implementing and communication
Culture Strategy                               Team in September after extensive            the strategy to all stakeholders with         the strategy to all stakeholders.
                                               stakeholder consultation.                    the priorities being workforce
                                                                                            planning, values       and change
                                                                                            management strategies.
Supervisor Development Program               LGMA has been engaged to                   Finalising arrangements for sessions        Ongoing        administration     and
                                               facilitate Council’s first Supervisor        and participants.                             coordination for the program.
                                               Development Program.                       Sessions begin on 14 and 15                 Monitoring        feedback       from
                                             24 participants are enrolled to              February.                                     participants to ensure the program is
                                               complete the 5 day program which                                                           relevant to their needs and the
                                               will be run over 5 months                                                                  needs of the organisation.
                                               commencing on 14 February.
Work health and safety audit                 Developed rectification action plan        Continue to address deficiencies            External audit to be conducted in
                                               from audit findings.                         found in audit and update audit               March 2018 by LGW.
                                             Commenced addressing deficiencies            rectification action plan.
                                               found in audit and update audit            Collect evidence for external audit to
                                               rectification action plan                    be conducted in March 2018 by
                                                                                            LGW.
People and Culture Service Review            Consultant, David Spearritt engaged        Review process has commenced.               Service Review due to be completed
                                               to complete this Service Review.           Stakeholders meetings planned for             by Mar/April 2018.
                                                                                            31 March and 1 February.
                                                                                          Providing information as required for
                                                                                            this review.


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