The Director of City Development and Director
of Resources and Housing:
a) Agreed to continue to support the aims of the Great Jobs Agenda
and continue to seek to meet the standards to provide better jobs
that offer a living wage and good working conditions;
b) Noted the aligned strategies and place based programmes
currently being progressed under the Leeds Inclusive Growth
Strategy to engage with the Leeds Anchors Network and a wider range
of employers to provide good employment;
c) Endorsed the approach to work towards securing Living Wage
Foundation accreditation of the Council as a Living Wage Employer
and tackle low pay and in-work poverty through the Living Wage
Foundation’s Living Wage Places model to promote Leeds as a
Living Wage City;
d) Noted that the officer responsible for all employment issues
within the Council, including engagement with the trade unions is
the Chief Officer Human Resources and the officers responsible for
the aligned intervention to support wide employer engagement on the
above issues are the Chief Officer Economic Development and the
Chief Officer Employment and Skills.