Home Office: Pay

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is compliant with the requirement in section 3.1.8 of the Civil Service Management Code that time off with pay for safety representatives will not be set against facility time allowed under existing arrangements.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 3rd February 2020

The Home Office provides trade union representatives with a maximum facility time allocation which covers the time they request to undertake trade union duties, union learning representative duties and health and safety duties. This is in line with the legislative obligation, set out in the Trade Union Act (2016), that information relating to facility time for relevant union officials be published, with facility time defined by that Act as including time off taken by a relevant union official that is permitted by the official’s employer, including under “regulations made under section 2(4) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974”. The Home Office provisions do also include scope for some approved health and safety duties, for example involving joint working with the employer, to not be set against the facility time allocation.

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