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 Borough Council (central function employees)
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
Employees in the organisation
- 1501 to 5000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 15
- FTE trade union representatives: 14.54
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 3 representatives
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 9 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: £147,675,589
- Total cost of facility time: £145,365.93
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.10%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 6130 hours
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 347 hours
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 5.66%
Education function
Barnsley Borough Council (education function employees)
1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
Employees in the organisation
- 1501 to 5000 employees
Trade union representatives and full-time equivalents
- Trade union representatives: 4
- FTE trade union representatives: 3.57
Percentage of working hours spent on facility time
- 0% of working hours: 1 representative
- 1 to 50% of working hours: 1 representative
- 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives
- 100% of working hours: 2 representatives
Total pay bill and facility time costs
- Total pay bill: £46,110,875
- Total cost of facility time: £80,561
- Percentage of pay spent on facility time: 0.17%
Paid trade union activities
- Hours spent on paid facility time: 1862 hours
- Hours spent on paid trade union activities: 21 hours
- Percentage of total paid facility time hours spent on paid TU activities: 1.13%
Trade Union contact details
GMB
Email anngallagher@barnsley.gov.uk or call (01226) 772 980.
NASUWT
Email secretary.barnsley@nasuwt.org.uk or call 07825 345947.
NEU
Email selina.hardwick@neu.org.uk or call 01302 342448.
Unison
Email branchoffice@unisonbarnsleylg.org or call (01226) 772 988.
Unite
Contact Unite online or call 0114 321 0702.