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Allowances
Allowances including honorarium, acting up, first aid, stand by and market supplement.
Honorarium
An honorarium is a one-off lump sum payment intended to recognise exceptional effort or contribution. Honoraria payments under £2,000 are paid in arrears and are subject to the approval of the relevant directorate's Corporate Director. Amounts exceeding £2,000 must be authorised by the Corporate Director - Resources and Transformation, in accordance with the delegations in the council's constitution.
Requests for honoraria must be made to the corporate director by an employee's line manager.
Acting up
Payments are available for employees who are temporarily 'promoted' to carry out the full duties of a higher graded job and temporarily cease to carry out their normal substantive job. In this case employees will be paid at the minimum level of the allocated grade for the job being acted up into.
Line managers should contact the People Management Team if they are considering an acting up arrangement within their team.
Responsibility pay
Responsibility pay is intended to reward employees who are temporarily undertaking additional responsibilities, or part of the duties of a more highly graded job, in addition to their substantive job. The additional responsibilities or duties will be temporarily incorporated into the existing job description and evaluated to see whether or not they are significant enough to result in an additional payment at the minimum level of the nearest higher grade.
Line managers should contact the People Management Service if they are considering arranging responsibility pay.
First aid allowance
A payment of £104 per year paid monthly to people who are registered "First Aiders" for their building and will be pro-rated for part-time employees.
First Aid Allowance (DOC 233KB)
Stand by
A payment of £105 per week (or pro rata over seven days - £15 per session) will be paid whilst on standby.
Standby is an allowance paid when management require employees to be available for work outside of core hours. The start and end time of the standby periods will be locally determined in advance, subject to operational need, and will be specified in a rota or service plan. The allowance is an inconvenience payment and is paid to provide minimal cover for essential services out of normal working hours. It is not designed therefore to provide regular cover where the introduction of a shift rota would be more appropriate.
Market supplement
A market supplement is an additional payment that enhances a basic salary. It can only be applied where there is evidence that the post cannot be filled or occupied at the current rate of pay.