Public sector concerns

Wednesday 5th May 2010, 3:00PM BST.

From Roger Bale.
THERE are no company heads in the tax paying private sector who do not have knowledge of their staff, their responsibilities and remuneration with specific details available to them at the press of a button.

If the responses of ‘too time consuming’ to Deputy Paul Le Claire in response to his request for details of States employees’ duties, responsibility and salaries are indeed as reported in the JEP of 27 April then we have clear evidence of the scale of mismanagement in the five States departments.

Also exposed is the nonsense of paying public sector salaries in line with the private sector.

Public sector management have no role in generating income against market place competition. Their role is simply administration.

If the report is correct then those persons in charge of the departments named should have their role and remunerations made the subject of an urgent review.

In the tax paying private sector they would in all probability be shown the door.

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Davey West

May 6, 2010 at 9:09 am

Again Mr Bale points out what most people already know, and is completely correct.

How can a caretaker of public land, the waterfront, with out commercial pressures ie competition, be rewarded to the tune of £287,000 per year for allocating building plots.

I am suprised that States members have not asked questions in the house as to whom sits on the remuneration board. Why was a bonus of £41,000 given.

Davey

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David Rotherham

May 7, 2010 at 5:24 am

Mr Bale over-generalizes. Only in small companies do heads have a personal control of all their staff. In medium and large ones a corporate bureaucracy usually emerges to put the civil service to shame. “Dilbert” is one of the world’s most successful cartoon strips, because so many people recognise the stereotypes from their own experiences.

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