Terms and Conditions

This outlines the Terms and Conditions applicable to most Council employees, there are however slight variations in respect of some employee groups e.g. Teachers and Craft Workers

Working Hours

If you are required to working additional hours out with your normal working hours or your working pattern involves Shift, Night, Public Holidays, Irregular Hours or Weekend working the appropriate allowances will be applicable.

Holiday Entitlement

The leave year runs from 1 January to 31 December.

Annual leave entitlement is 22 days, rising to 27 days after completion of 5 years' service by 1 January.

For the purposes of reckoning service, all previous service with any Local Authority (as listed in the Local Government (Modification) Order 1983) shall be reckoned. This service must be continuous.

Employees returning to local government service following a break for maternity reasons will be entitled to have previous service taken into account provided that no paid employment has intervened. Please note, employees will be asked to certify to this effect.

In addition to annual leave entitlement, 7 fixed public holidays and 5 "floating" days are normally granted. Please note, this may be subject to Local Agreement.

Employees are not entitled to a day in lieu if off sick on a Public holiday.

Pension Scheme

In accordance with the terms of the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Regulations 1987, as amended, employees (as defined in the scheme) aged from 16 will automatically become members of the Authority's Pension Scheme unless they elect, in writing, to the contrary. Relief employees can join the scheme by opting in.

Members of the Scheme are required to contribute at the rate of 6% of salary.

General details of the Scheme are contained in the explanatory guide available for reference within each Service.

The default retirement age for employees is 65, although you may apply to continue working beyond this. Consideration will then be given to this request.

The Local Government Pension Scheme is contracted out of the Government's State Pension Scheme.

Sick Pay Scheme

An officer absent from duty on account of sickness or injury shall receive, in any one period of 12 months, sickness allowance at full or half pay as appropriate in accordance with the following scale:

Service at commencement of absence	Full allowance for	Half allowance for
Less than 26 weeks	nil	nil
26 weeks or more but less than 1 year	5 weeks	5 weeks
1 year but less than 2 years	9 weeks	9 weeks
2 years but less than 3 years	18 weeks	18 weeks
3 years but less than 5 years	22 weeks	22 weeks
5 years or more	26 weeks	26 weeks

For the purposes of entitlement to Sick Pay previous service with any Local Authority shall only be counted where such service is continuous. You will be entitled to have previous service taken into account where the break in service has been for maternity reasons, provided that the break in service does not exceed eight years and that no paid employment has intervened.

Full sickness allowance will include any entitlement to statutory sick pay, or if an employee is excluded from SSP, full sickness allowance will be paid after deduction of benefits, received or receivable, under the NI Acts. The half pay allowance will be in addition to any SSP or NI sickness benefit, provided that the combined payment does not exceed normal full pay.