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Employee Health and Wellbeing Report 2021/22

Meeting: 25/05/2022 - Human Resources Committee (Item 31)

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Minutes:

The Chairman invited questions and comments on the report from Members.

 

Councillor Alder referred to paragraph 3.3 of the report and asked if staff absence figures could be broken down into departments, and included in the next report. The Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development said that he would investigate if this was a possibility.

 

Councillor McMullen asked if there were still plans for another Staff Wellbeing Survey. The Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development said that this was the plan, and that the survey would include questions on what support staff would like, and what would make them take that support up.

 

The Chairman said that it was important that the Council continued to support the health and wellbeing of its staff, and that planned actions met these specific needs. The Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development said that the Staff Wellbeing Survey would include asking employees how they felt now in comparison to during the pandemic.

 

It was moved by Councillor Newton and seconded by Councillor Bull that the recommendations, as detailed, be approved. After being put to the meeting and a vote taken, the motion was declared CARRIED.

 

RESOLVED – that the Annual Employee Health and Wellbeing Report 2021/22 including the actions (in section 8.0) planned for 2022/23 be noted.