Human Resources and Workforce Development

Supporting a range of solutions to meet the organisational challenges of a changing health service.

Providing support and advice for Human Resources and occupational health and safety policies, processes and practices.

Areas of support include:

• enquiries and advice on Human Resources and workforce development
• policy and case management
• terms and conditions, contractual and pay
• employee relations and reward
• organisational learning and development
• workforce information and systems

Facility Time Publishing Requirements

As per The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 which came into force on 1 April 2017, NHS National Services Scotland have a legislative requirement to collate and publish online a range of data on the amount and cost of facility time before 31 July each year.

This information is the first dataset due to be published by 31 July 2018 and is based on the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, however it should be noted that we are unable to categorise the information required further.

Relevant Union Officials

What was the total number of your employees who were relevant union officials during the relevant period? 

Table 2

Percentage of time spent on facility time

How many of your employees who were relevant union officials employed during the relevant period spent a) 0%, b) 1%-50%, c) 51%-99% or d) 100% of their working hours on facility time? 

For the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 there were a total of 4 employees who spent 100% of their working hours on facility time. For the same period there were a total of 53 who were part time, however NSS are unable to categorise this information further.

Table 3 

Percentage of pay bill spent on facility time

Table 4

Paid trade union activities  

This information does not include any time or cost relating to Partnership Working in NSS for our trade union representatives.