Trade Union Facility Time

East Herts Council is required to collate and publish, on an annual basis, a range of data on the amount and cost of facility time within the organisation under the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 and Local Government Transparency Code 2015.

Below is East Herts Council's data for the period 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022

Names of trade unions represented in the Council

  • UNISON

Employees in the council

  • 330 employees as at 31 March 2022

Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents

  • Trade union representatives: 6
  • FTE trade union representatives: 5.74

Percentage of working hours spent on facility time

  • 0% of working hours: 1 representative
  • 1 to 50% of working hours: 5 representatives
  • 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
  • 100% of working hours: 0 representatives

Total pay bill and facility time costs

  • Total pay bill: £12,515,087.22
  • Total cost of facility time: £1,988.64
  • Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.02%

Paid trade union activities

  • Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 100.00%
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