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Committee reports
Date published:
3 February 2022
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the COVID-19 Recovery Committee on 3 February 2022 - The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/29)
The relevant exemptions relate to employees and volunteers in certain places, a person leading an act of worship in a place of worship, a person leading a funeral, marriage ceremony or civil partnership registration, parties to be married or entering into a civil partnership, a person performing, presenting, addressing a public gathering, making a speech or...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 August 2021
Local government finance: concepts, trends and debates - Local government spending and income – 2019-20 outturns
On average, councils spend almost half their net revenue expenditure on education, £5.3 billion in total (80% of which goes on employee costs). Social work comes next - costing £3.5 billion in 2019-20 - with councils providing essential support to some of the most vulnerable people in society.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 August 2021
Equalities and Human Rights: Subject Profile - Public Sector Equality Duty
Public authorities subject to the specific equality duties are required to:
report on mainstreaming the equality duty
publish equality outcomes and report progress
assess and review policies and practices
gather and use employee information
publish gender pay gap information
publish statements on equal pay
consider award criteria and conditions in relation ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 December 2020
Adult social care and support in Scotland - Public Bodies (Joint Working)(Scotland) Act 2014
All other staff are employed by either the health board or the local authority. The Chief Officer must be an employee of either the local health board or local authority.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 October 2020
Liability for NHS Charges (Treatment of Industrial Disease) (Scotland) Bill - Working conditions and health and safety
Those outcomes are already incentivised through awards of damages for personal injury to employees and criminal sanctions for breaches of statutory duty under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 June 2020
Stage 1 Report on the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Bill - Enforcement and under-reporting
The Committee believes that employers and employees must be encouraged to report crimes.
Committee reports
Date published:
3 December 2019
Code of Conduct for MSPs - proposed revisions to implement the recommendations contained in the Joint Working Group's Report on Sexual Harassment and Sexist Behaviour - Members' own staff
The Committee considers that any complaint made under the Code about a Member’s behaviour would relate to the standards of conduct expected of them in their role as an MSP and would be separate from any action or grievance taken in the context of the employer-employee relationship.
The Committee therefore proposes that section 7.5 of the Code is revised to ...
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2019
Key audit themes - Severance payments
The Committee has since that time received an annual report on severance payments which have been made to senior public sector employees.
During this session, the Committee has scrutinised a number of reports in relation to which governance concerns have been raised about payments that have been made to senior staff on their departure from public sector bod...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
7 December 2018
Pro-Poor or Pro-Rich? The social impact of local government budgets, 2016-17 to 2018-19 - Local conditions and challenges
The Council itself is the largest single employer within the local authority boundary, with 6,900 employees, meaning the economy is heavily reliant on the local public sector.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
7 March 2018
The gender paygap: facts and figures - 2017 - What is the pay gap by age?
At all age groups women are more likely to work part-time than menFigure 18: Proportion of people in full-time and part-time employment by gender and age in Scotland 2015SPICe analysis of the Annual Population SurveyWhen looking at the pay for all employees by age, the 18-21 year old age group is the only group where women earn more.
