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07
Dec 2022
Union issues warning about directors' redundancy pay at Harrogate Borough Council
Unison is to write to Harrogate Borough Council today warning them not to offer senior managers more favourable redundancy terms than other staff when it is abolished.
Seven district councils, including Harrogate, and North Yorkshire County Council will cease to exist on April 1, when they will be replaced by the new North Yorkshire Council.
All staff, except the chief executives, are due to transfer to the North Yorkshire Council under TUPE regulations.
But Hambleton District Council has agreed to pay £767,065 to four senior officers who decided they do not wish to work for the unitary North Yorkshire Council after April 1.
The payments were agreed even though the four directors had been assured they would be offered “suitable roles” at no financial loss to themselves when they transferred to North Yorkshire Council .
This has prompted trade union Unison to write to all the councils demands all staff be treated the same.
A spokesman for the North Yorkshire branch of Unison said:
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Harrogate Borough Council's chief officer employment committee is due to meet tonight to discuss awarding chief executive Wallace Sampson a £101,274 redundancy package.
Mr Sampson would receive a contractual redundancy payment of £71,633 plus £29,641 for a 12-week notice period he will not have to work.
Mr Sampson's exit package is considerably less than that announced so far for other chief executives who will leave their jobs on March 31.
Selby District Council chief executive Janet Waggot is to receive a redundancy package worth £210,000 and Hambleton District Council's chief executive, Justin Ives, is to receive a £225,000 settlement.
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