Councils must publish the following information on trade union facility time:
- trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- total pay bill and facility time cost
- paid trade union activities
Trade union facility time
Central function
Barnsley Council (central function employees)
1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020
Employees in the organisation
- 1,501 to 5,000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 21
- FTE trade union representatives: 20.57
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 4 representative
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 15 representatives
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 3 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £81,967,301.40
- Total cost of facility time: £132,568.36
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.16%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 6258
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 88
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 1.41%
Education function
Barnsley Council (education function employees)
1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020
Employees in the organisation
- 1,501 to 5,000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 10
- FTE trade union representatives: 7.8
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 6 representatives
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 2 representatives
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 2 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £47,158,601.20
- Total cost of facility time: £108,963.60
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.23%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 2552
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 7
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 0.27%