Trade union facility time

Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017

The Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 came into force on 1st April 2017. These regulations place a legislative requirement on relevant public sector employers to collate and publish a range of data on the amount and cost of facility time within their organisation, annually.

The data must be broken down into Central Function and Education Function employees.

Data for Bury Council from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 is detailed on this page.

Basic estimate of spending on unions

A basic estimate of spending on unions (calculated as the number of full time equivalent days spent on union duties by authority staff that spent the majority of their time on union duties multiplied by the average salary):

• Full Time Estimate (FTE) days: 3.37
• Average salary: £27,290
• Spend: £91,957.30

A basic estimate of spending on unions as a percentage of the total pay bill (calculated as the number of full time equivalent days spent on union duties by authority staff that spent the majority of their time on union duties multiplied by the average salary divided by the total pay bill).

• FTE days: 3.37
• Average salary: £27,290
• Total pay bill: £158,067,122.83
• Spend: 0.06 percent

Total number of staff who are union representatives (including general, learning and health and safety representatives):

Total number of union representatives who devote at least 50 percent of their time to trade union duties:

• Total number of staff: 4
• Full time equivalent: 3.37

Names of all trade unions represented in the local authority:

• Unison
• Unite
• GMB
• National Education Union; National Union of Teachers and Association of Teachers and Lecturers
• National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers
• Association of School and College Leaders
• National Association of Head Teachers.