2019-05-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                                     7 MAY 2019


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                           RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                             CURRENT PRIORITIES                         THE NEXT QUARTER
                                                                                                                                                Driver awareness training for
                                                                                                                                                  staff that drive Council vehicles;
                                                                                                                                             First aid training; and
                                                                                                                                             Risk awareness training.
2019/2020 Training Budget - preparation        People and Culture in partnership             Develop capacity building programs       Work with Managers to identify “at
and organisational training needs                with Managers have collated the                 for our emerging leaders and under         risk” positions in Council where staff
analysis                                         operational, compliance and WHS                 30’s so they are supported and             critical to future operations are
                                                 training requirements for next                  engaged.                                   supported to grow and stay with
                                                 financial year. Allocations have also                                                      Council as well as training others so
                                                 been       made      for      supervisor                                                   succession plans are in place.
                                                 development,                  leadership                                                 This will occur as part of the
                                                 development and “emerging leader”                                                          workforce planning program
                                                 programs.
Single Touch Payroll Implementation            System went live in February with no        Continue to support staff with             Monitoring and review if required
(As part of new Federal requirements,            implementation issues.                        information on how to set up MYGOV
Council has to implement a system that         Feedback from staff has been                  accounts and the changes that have
provides fortnightly pay summaries to the        minimal          but           continued      occurred as a result of single touch
ATO, instead of yearly in the form of            communication is planned as staff             payroll
group certificates)                              will not notice a change until the end
                                                 of the financial year when they no
                                                 longer      receive      their     group
                                                 certificates and are required to
                                                 access information via the ATO
                                                 portal or their MYGOV account.
Councils Drug and Alcohol Policy and           168 staff (including all operational)         Regular promotion of Council’s drug      Ongoing testing and monitoring to
Procedure                                        staff attended face to face drug and            and alcohol program to reinforce           ensure Noosa has a safe work
                                                 alcohol policy training. All other staff        staff awareness.                           environment at all times.
                                                 have completed online training so               (Testing may occur at any time and
                                                 they are all aware of their                     staff are expected to be fully
                                                 obligations.                                    compliant with the requirements of
                                               Staff    advised     of    independent          the policy and procedure.)
                                                 confidential      support        through
                                                 Council’s free employee assistance
                                                 program which has received a minor
                                                 increase in access recently.




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