Date published: 2025-05-07 | Category: Preparing for the Future
Details of pay proposals for staff at Bath& North East Somerset Council are going before the authority’s Employment Committee.
It follows an independent review and extensive consultation with staff and trade union representatives which will see improvements to the pay and grading structure to bring the council in line with other authorities.
The committee is being recommended to accept proposals which would see:
- 62% of the council’s 3,500 employees including care workers, social workers and apprentices receive an uplift
- 106 members of staff - 3% of the total- will be on pay protection for the next three years, under a scheme agreed with the trade unions, and at the end of that period it is possible no individual will see an overall reduction in pay. Nothing will change for drivers, loaders, recycling advisors and passenger transport whose job roles will remain as they are for the time being while the council considers the best way to implement the new pay and grading structure
- The rest of the council’s staff will see no change to their grading
The national pay award which will be paid to all staff when it is agreed and backdated to 1 April 2025. When the national pay award is taken into account it would see a pay rise of more than six per cent for some of the council’s lowest paid staff.
Will Godfrey, B&NES Chief Executive, said: “Our staff deliver valuable services and these proposals are fundamentally about fairness. We have undertaken extensive consultation and negotiation with trade union representatives on this since August 2024.
“Around three per cent of our staff will see their salary protected for three years. Nothing will change for drivers, loaders, recycling advisors and passenger transport for the time being. We will continue to work with these staff and trade unions to find the best way to implement our proposals.”
Employment Committee meets on May 14 and a link to the report can be found on the council website here.