Joint Consultation and Negotiation Committee – Summary for March 2015

MEETING HELD:   3 March  2015
PRESENT:
Tracy Conwell, Head of Employee Relations
Antonia Humphreys, Senior Manager Employee Relations
Tim Poil, General Secretary, NGSU
Tim Rose, Assistant General Secretary, NGSU

GUESTS:
Tom Anderson (Compliance Oversight)
Tuan Le (Project Manager)
Ian Baines and David Cook (Pensions)
Iain Rusling (Information Security), Christopher Grubb (Project Manager), Carl Burke (Product Management),
Harvie Hughes, Kirsty Hughes and Gail Restall (Employee Relations)

MINUTES: Paul Durkin, Employee Relations Analyst

The Joint Consultation and Negotiation Committee received presentations from a number of guests.

Tom Anderson provided an update on changes to the Whistleblowing Committee structure and associated changes to support Nationwide’s whistleblowing arrangements. The JCNC agreed a revision to the Whistleblowing Policy to reflect the changes.

Tuan Le and Kirsty Hughes returned to JCNC to provide an update on the Bring Your Own Device and Workplace Agility programmes.

David Cook and Iain Baines provided the regular pensions update including the membership statistics and an overview of the agenda for the Trustee Meeting. There was discussion regarding a proposed change to the approach for Member Nominated Trustees for the Nationwide Pension Fund (NPF) which had not formed part of the previous agreement reached.  NGSU advised that this would need further discussion.

Iain Rusling, Christopher Grubb and Gail Restall outlined proposed activity intended to further strengthen security relating to electronic communications. It was agreed that this item will be discussed further at a future JCNC.

Carl Burke and Harvie Hughes explained changes to the arrangements for employee personal loans, effective from 31 March 2015.

A number of actions were agreed. The next JCNC will take place on 13 April 2015.