Common use of FUTURE NEGOTIATING MACHINERY Clause in Contracts

FUTURE NEGOTIATING MACHINERY. Agreement has been reached to establish a new national negotiating body and local negotiating committees covering each of the 32 local authorities. The national body will be tripartite and will operate on the basis of consensus. The devolution of areas of conditions of service to local negotiation will increase the capacity to develop arrangements which meet local circumstances, whilst the national body will retain responsibility for those areas of pay and conditions of service which most appropriately should be the subject of national agreement. A note of the devolved arrangements is attached at Annex F.