Pay Award 2012: 1% Non-Consolidated: Contingency Funding: Transfer

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A decision made 10 December 2012:

Decision Reference: MD-PE-2012-0131
Decision Summary Title:	Transfer to DotE Revenue from T&R Contingency Funding for 2012 Non Consolidated Award			Date of Decision Summary:	6 December 2012
Decision Summary Author:	Finance Manager			Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written			Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Transfer to DotE Revenue from T&R Contingency Funding for 2012 Non Consolidated Award			Date of Written Report:	6 December 2012
Written Report Author:	Finance Manager			Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Budget transfer to Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure for non-recurring contingency funding from the T&R Provision for Central Reserves for costs associated with the 1% Non Consolidated Pay Awards for 2012.
Decision(s): The Minister for the Department of the Environment approved a 2012 transfer to the Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure for non-recurring contingency funding totalling £57,790 from the T&R Provision for Central Reserves for costs associated with the 1% Non Consolidated Pay Awards for 2012.
Reason(s) for Decision: As a result of the public sector pay review the final offer for 2012 provided for a 1% Non Consolidated Pay Award to be paid as a lump sum with effect from 1 January 2012. The pay review was concluded on 4 December 2012 and the lump sum will be paid in December 2012.
Resource Implications: The Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure to increase by £57,790 and the T&R Provision for Central Reserves (one-off funding) to decrease by an identical amount.
Action required: T&R to arrange the transfer of £57,790 to the Department of the Environment from T&R Provision for Central Reserves contingency funding.
Signature: Deputy R C Duhamel		AS/YF Initials	Position: Minister for Planning and Environment
Date Signed:			Date of Decision:

Pay Award 2012: 1% Non-Consolidated: Contingency Funding: Transfer

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Department of the Environment

Ministerial Decision Report

TRANSFER TO REVENUE HEAD OF EXPENDITURE

for 1% NON CONSOLIDATED PAY AWARD FOR 2012

Purpose of Report

To enable the Minister for the Department of the Environment to approve a 2012 transfer in the sum of £57,790 to the Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure from the T&R Provision for Central Reserves (one-off funding) for costs associated with the 1% Non Consolidated Award for 2012.

Background

On 4 December 2012, the Chief Minister announced in the States that the employer would be implementing the final pay offer made initially on 12 July 2012.

The final offer provides for;

2012, 1% non-consolidated award paid as a one off lump sum, with effect 1 January 2012;
2013, 1% consolidated pay award plus 1% non-consolidated award paid as a one off lump sum, with effect 1 January 2013;
2014, 4% consolidated pay award with effect 1 January 2014 in return for a modernisation agreement;
A guarantee of no compulsory redundancies until the end of 2014.

In 2012, the Council of Ministers made provision in Central Reserves for the one-off non consolidated award. The implementation of the pay offer gives rise to a budget transfer of £57,790 to the Department of the Environment to settle the pay offer.

3. Recommendation

To approve a non-recurring budget transfer totalling £57,790 to the Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure from T&R Provision for Central Reserves contingency funding.

4. Reason for Decision

As a result of the public sector pay review the final offer for 2012 provided for a 1% Non Consolidated Pay Award to be paid as a lump sum with effect from 1 January 2012. The pay review was concluded on 4 December 2012.

Article 2(6) of the Public Finances (Transitional Arrangements) (Jersey) Order 2011 states that all or any part of the amount appropriated by a head of expenditure may, with the approval of the Minister for Treasury and Resources, be used for the purposes of another head of expenditure.

5. Resource Implications

The Department of the Environment revenue head of expenditure to increase by £57,790 and the T&R Provision for Central Reserves (one-off funding) to decrease by an identical amount.

Written by: Finance Manager

Approved by: