Financial savings 2024-25 - Employee overall impact assessment
| Title | Financial savings 2024-25 - Employee overall impact assessment |
|---|---|
| Council Resource | Finance and Corporate |
| Aims and Objectives | As part of the Councils annual savings exercise, efficiencies are sought through a range of methods including a reduction in staffing where appropriate. This has so far fallen short of compulsory redundancies and have been achieved through non filling of vacancies, redeployment, removal of temporary posts, and early retirement as per the Council’s collective agreement. |
| Conclusion | The Council is required to review and assess services to ensure that it can deliver efficient effective and accessible services. This will inevitably lead to changes that will affect the workforce. The Council will consult fully with those likely to be affected to minimise any identified adverse effect regardless of protected characteristic. The Councils package of savings options for the year ahead are subject to consultation and individual impact assessment. Where adverse impact has been identified, steps will be taken to limit the effect on protected groups. The conclusion of this equality impact assessment is that there may be an impact on the female part of the workforce covered by equalities legislation, or on workforce relations, however, the options are in line with the Councils collective agreement and therefore identify efficiencies through non filling of vacancies, removal of temporary posts and where individuals are eligible for early retirement, voluntary redundancy or redeployment. As such steps are in place to mitigate any negative impact. |
| Completion date | 21 February 2024 |
| Contact Email address | equalities@southlanarkshire.gov.uk |