There is a statutory requirement on the council to collate and publish, on an annual basis, a range of data on the amount and costs of trade union facility time.
Unions represented
Representation
The table below counts all employees that were union officials during 2021/22
Table showing count of all employees that were union officials during 2021/22
| Description |
Absolute number |
Full time equivalent |
| Union representatives eg. general, learning and health and safety representatives |
6 |
6 |
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time during 2021/22
| Percentage of working hours spent on facility time during 2021 / 22 |
| 0% of working hours |
5 representatives |
| 1 to 50% of working hours |
1 representative |
| 51 - 99% of working hours |
0 representatives |
| 100% of working hours |
0 representatives |
| Cost of trade union facility time between April 2021 and March 2022 |
| Total Pay Bill |
£17,792,778 |
| Total cost of trade union facility time |
£6,147 |
| Percentage of the council's total pay bill spent on trade union facility time |
0.03% |
| Time spent on paid trade union activities as a percentage of total paid facility time |
32.70% |
