Issue - meetings

The following points were made during the discussion:-

·         Islington figures were more favourable when making comparisons with other London Boroughs such as Hackney and Haringey.  This information would be circulated to Audit Committee members for their information.

·         Although the figures had not been audited, the Director of Human Resources was confident that the figures had been calculated correctly.  There was no statutory requirement to audit the figures.

·         It was considered that men and women would both be paid the same for the equivalent job although those people that had been in the job for a longer period of time could be paid at a higher rate.

·         The figures were taken from the payroll as at March 2017 but it was expected that there would be a further report in May/June which would take figures from payroll data as at March 2018.

·         It was hoped to do more work around groups of jobs or using data or dip sampling to assess possible discrepancies.

RESOLVED that the report be approved for publication.