fiureftrm Below is info from the LGA Website:-
http://www.lg-employers.gov.uk/recruit/guide/special/political.html"Certain posts are 'politically restricted' which means that they are effectively prevented from having any active political role either in or outside the workplace. This not only debars post holders from holding political office but also restricts them from canvassing or from speaking in public or publishing a work which might give the impression that they are advocating support for a political party. An authority must hold a list of politically restricted posts.
The posts that are politically restricted fall into three categories:
Specified posts - including head of paid service, chief officers and political assistants
Posts paid at or above spinal column point 44
Sensitive posts - this relates to the duties of the post
Apart from those in specified posts, a postholder can apply to an independent adjudicator to be exempted from the list, on the grounds that they do not influence policy.
It is good practice to inform applicants to a post which is politically restricted that this is the case. This may be a major influence on whether to apply for a job or not. For this reason it is better to include information in the applicant's pack so that a person who is not willing to give up their political activities does not waste the time of both themselves and the authority in applying for the post."
"All posts where the remuneration level is or exceeds the 'spinal column point' 44 on the NJC for Local Government Services scales, which currently equates to a yearly salary of £33,009 (as of 01.04.2004 and rising to £33,984 from 01.04.2005), will be automatically included on the list of 'PoRPs' [Local Government (Politically Restricted Posts)(No 2) Regulations 1990 (SI 1447)]. "
So by that a Station Manager exceeds the threshold - I wondered if anyone had experience of it being riggerously applied.
Peter
Peter
