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Managing with authority

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council's HR department threw everything it had into delivering the single-status pay deal. Now it is turning its attentions to sickness absence.


Reigate and Banstead Borough Council

Industry sector: Local government

Number of employees: 550

Number of HR staff: 11 full-time equivalents

Head office: Reigate, Surrey

Main products/services: environmental services, leisure, consumer protection

For the past two years Peter Marklew, personnel services manager at Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, has been preoccupied with the introduction of a single-status pay deal throughout the authority's entire workforce.