Trade union facility time

The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 requires the Council to publish the following information annually:

• total number of staff who are union representatives (including general, learning and health and safety representatives)
• number of union representatives who spend at least 50 per cent of their time on union duties
• names of all trade unions represented in the local authority
• an estimate of spending on unions (calculated as the number of full time equivalent days spent on union duties, multiplied by the average salary)
• an estimate of spending on unions as a percentage of the total pay bill (calculated as the number of full time equivalent days spent on union duties, multiplied by the average salary, divided by the total pay bill)