How much time is reasonable to give our Employee Forum Representatives to carry out their duties?

Hi Rebecca

It entirely depends on how much you are asking them to do.

How long is the exec meeting expected to last? Will they be required to travel to and from the meeting or is it in there place of work? How many people will each representative be required to engage with prior to and after the meeting? You may then need to multiply this number of hours by the number of working groups each will be participating in.

My key recommendation would be that whatever number you come to, you allocate this per month and not per week as you will certainly find there are peaks and troughs in activity.

Hi Rebecca

It entirely depends on how much you are asking them to do.

How long is the exec meeting expected to last? Will they be required to travel to and from the meeting or is it in there place of work? How many people will each representative be required to engage with prior to and after the meeting? You may then need to multiply this number of hours by the number of working groups each will be participating in.

My key recommendation would be that whatever number you come to, you allocate this per month and not per week as you will certainly find there are peaks and troughs in activity.

Hi Caroline
The meetings will be bi-monthly, they will be expected to canvass opinions bring ideas and issues etc. review policies etc. and link in with key programmes/projects through the meetings. There will be 2 reps per directorate as we have a number of sites and 40% of staff are homeworkers. We have 4 directorates to 8 in total.

Thanks for responding.

Becka

Why don't you wait and bring it up at one of the meetings? Isnt this the sort of thing that needs agreement on both sides?