CIVIL servants’ leader John Moulin is urging his members to work ’side by side’ with the States in radically overhauling the public sector.
Three hundred jobs - mainly civil service posts - are to be cut in the next five years as part of the ‘visioning’ exercise for States departments.
Another 200 could be axed as part of the fundamental spending review being finalised this week by committee presidents.Civil Service Association president Mr Moulin, the Ambulance Service chief officer, says he is pleased the plans are now public.
‘There has been a lot of rumour flying around, at one stage we were thinking 900 jobs were going,’ he said.Mr Moulin accepts assurances that compulsory redundancies will only be used as a last resort and that re-deployment and natural wastage are the main ways that the savings will be found.’This has to be a partnership and we must work together.
Our objective is that people should have a good job, a secure job and a job they enjoy.
What we want to do is to make sure the public get the public service they deserve and in a manner that people get job satisfaction,’ he said.Under the five-year vision unveiled yesterday, a central customer services unit will be created including a one-stop call centre for all inquiries to States departments.
There will also be one central unit dealing with human resources, finance and IT, cutting out the departmental sections.
The aim is to cut annual expenditure by £20 million while improving service to the public.
Article posted on 18th March, 2004 - 12.00am
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