If your church employs paid staff the Trustees are legally responsible for their selection, employment and management. But most Trustees fail to appreciate this. So the advice here is to appoint a specialist group to take on this role on behalf of the legal employers as delegated responsibility. The notes ask four questions.
What is this group’s purpose?
Who should be chosen?
What might the group be called?
What are their key responsibilities?
Seven possible responsibilities are suggested:
To ensure compliance with employment legislation
To seek best practice in the selection of new staff
To ensure that staff are properly managed
To take pastoral interest in the well-being of staff
To recommend appropriate pay scales, pensions and other financial benefits
To recommend staff training within agreed budgets
To guide the Trustees when problems occur.
Training Notes TN130, Appoint a ‘Staff Action Group’, are now available without charge from the Training Notes index page of John Truscott’s website.