Chief Officers' Employment Panel

The Chief Officers’ Employment Panel has the following powers and duties:  

(a)          to make recommendations to Council on the appointment of the Head of Paid Service;  

(b)          to appoint and dismiss Chief Officers excluding the dismissal of the Chief Financial Officer and Monitoring Officer;  

(c)          to make recommendations to Council on  the dismissal of the Head of Paid Service, Chief Finance Officer or  Monitoring Officer in cases of redundancy, permanent ill health or the expiry of a fixed term contract;  

(d)          to consider recommendations from the Statutory Chief Officers’ Disciplinary Panel and decide whether to impose a disciplinary sanction in accordance with such a recommendation;  

(e)          to consider whether to impose a disciplinary sanction on a chief officer other than where a recommendation from the Statutory Chief Officers’ Disciplinary Panel is required;  

(f)           to approve remuneration packages of £100,000 or over for any Council post; and  

(g)          to report back to Council for information purposes on all such approved remuneration packages;  

(h)          to approve any severance packages for Officers of £100,000 or over irrespective of the grade of Officer.   

(i)            to report back to Council for information purposes on all such approved severance packages.