Latest Staff Information

Here you will find the latest information for staff on communications, initiatives, webinars and sessions available from NL Life and Learn NL.

Staff Roadshow – April – June 2024

A programme of staff sessions have been arranged to find out more about The Plan for North Lanarkshire and the new programme of work.

The Plan for North Lanarkshire was established in 2019 with a clear long-term vision and ambition – inclusive growth and prosperity for all to bring equal benefits and a fairer distribution of wealth to all North Lanarkshire’s people and communities.

The programme of work delivers a range of projects that help to achieve that ambition, including boosting the local economy, transforming towns and communities, enhancing opportunities and creating jobs.

We have already made some great achievements since then. Our hub programme has already commenced, the range of affordable council homes has vastly increased, significant infrastructure and major town centre regeneration projects are in place or underway, gross weekly pay continues to remain higher than the national average, record investment and positive economic growth for the region. These are significant in-roads in terms of positive outcomes for people and communities.

The new programme of work incorporates a diverse range of projects that will make a significant difference over many years, enabling people and communities to thrive while improving social conditions and outcomes. This provides a framework for a better future for North Lanarkshire and the people who live and work here.

This 1.5 hour session will provide you with more insight into The Plan for North Lanarkshire and the new programme of work and gives you the chance to help shape the next phase.

The roadshows, presented by the council’s chief officers, are taking place in 23 different venues on a range of dates from April until the end of June across North Lanarkshire.

Take a look at the venues listed on this page to find a suitable date and book your place.

Coming on 22 January 2024

New Occupational Heath Portal – MedigoldONE

In 2023 Health Management Ltd (HML) became part of Medigold Health. To help bring HML and Medigold’s teams, systems and processes together and to improve and streamline the occupational health process for managers the MedigoldONE portal will replace the existing Health Hub portal.

Accessing the New Portal

From 22^nd January 2024 you will request occupational health services via MedigoldOne via the web links and passwords that will be provided.

Existing cases on Health Hub will continue to be accessible, however you will not be able to make any new requests on Health Hub from the 22nd January.

Further information will be made available to managers in due course in the meantime a video demonstrating the new portal is available here.

Hybrid Working Scheme 2024

Following the decision to continue with hybrid working, the Council has refreshed the scheme to better reflect business needs and the ambition of the Council to create a more agile, flexible, and collaborative workplace environment that will enable the Council to be more effective and more efficient. The revised scheme and the supporting FAQs can be found here

Buy, Bank and Unpaid Leave

More information, including guidance on how to apply can be found here.

Updated 24 May

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Updated 17th March

SNCT Pay Agreement – Teachers and Associated Professionals

Following confirmation from COSLA on the evening of Tuesday 14 March 2023 of a new pay agreement for teachers and associated professionals, it has been confirmed that this agreement will be processed and all associated backpay for year 2022-23 on the below pay dates:

• Permanent Teachers and Associated Professionals (Payrun 10)  – 30^th March 2023
• Supply Teachers (Payrun 11) – 14^th April 2023

Given the date the COSLA circular was provided to us, these are the earliest pay dates possible for the two payruns noted above.

Update – Hybrid Working Scheme

It was agreed that the Hybrid Working Scheme will be extended for a further year up to 31 March 2024 at Policy and Strategy Committee (17.3.23).

The scheme has had some very minor amendments and can be viewed on myNL.

During the next year considerations for a more permanent arrangement will be discussed with managers, staff and trade union colleagues.

Contract variations for the further one-year extension will be issued shortly.

If you wish to discuss your status as a hybrid worker further, please contact your line manager in the first instance or check out the FAQs on myNL.

Updated 15th March

Update on Industrial Action pay deductions

Employees who participated in the industrial action on 28/02/2023 and 01/03/2023 have now had their iTrent record updated to reflect this. The deduction will be taken from the March pay which is due paid on 30/03/2023.  Please direct any enquiries to industrialactionmanagementrecording@northlan.gov.uk

Early Years – Information

Local Government Pay Deal Refunds – SSSC Registration fees

As part of the local government pay deal, local authority staff are no longer required to pay SSSC registration fees. This agreement applies to any fees due from 1 April 2022.

SSSC have made changes to our systems which means that they will no longer request application fees, annual fees or renewal fees to any local authority staff. However, until this was put in place at the end of last year SSSC were still collecting fees. This has resulted in more than 30,000 payments requiring to be refunded.

SSSC have been working on a process to automate the refunds to avoid having to process 30,000 individual refund transactions. A system is now in place and SSSC have started to process the refunds. Although this is automated the system does not have the capacity to process all the transactions at the same time which means it is going to take a number of weeks to get through all of the refunds. SSSC estimates that all refunds will be completed over the next four weeks and that everyone should have received their refund payment by the 17th of April 2023.

Staff will receive confirmation of the refund by email when it has been processed.