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Trade Unions
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1. The details of any office accommodation your organisation provides to staff to carry out trade union business. Please include details of:
a) space measured in square feet: WBC provide a first-floor single room / office space at the offices at Shute End, 150 ft2
b) how much of this space is contained within entirely separate buildings (i.e. occupied solely by staff carrying out trade union business): Nil
c) whether a professional valuation of the market rental value of the space has been sought either in-house or externally, and if so, what the valuation of the space was: No valuation sought
d) any charges the council levy for office space given to trade unions: £Nil
2. Do you deduct trade union subscriptions for any of your employees via payroll (sometimes known as the 'check off' system)? If so, do you charge a fee to the trade unions concerned for providing this service?
We deduct via Payroll and No fee is charged.
3. With regard to trade union facility time, please provide the total cost of facility time from your pay bill for the financial year 2023/24 and the budget for the current financial year. Please also advise the current number of employees that you fund to be union officials, measured as full time equivalents? (For guidance on definitions please refer to the Government's Transparency Code for local government: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-transparency-code-2015/local-government-transparency-code-2015)
We do not fund anyone to be TU officials here we just have workplace reps.
4. Please advise any estimates for other costs met for those staff on trade union facility time apart from salaries - including travel expenses, office supplies, telephone expenses and energy bills.
N/A
