Sixty public sector jobs to go
Friday 21st May 2010, 3:00PM BST.
Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf
UP to 60 public sector jobs are to go in the first round of a major voluntary redundancy scheme to be announced next week.
Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf is to ask politicians to approve the release of about £6 million to fund the restructuring process launch-ed as part of a cost-cutting drive.
The JEP understands that the States will look for even more voluntary job losses over the next three years.
The redundancy scheme, to be outlined during the States sitting next Tuesday, will form a major part of the comprehensive spending review launched earlier this year to plug budget deficits caused by the recession.
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SIX MILLION for restructuring costs – amateurs. Sick of them in Government.
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When 60 people are made redundant in the Private Sector, which happens regularly, its dam lucky to be on the front page.
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Please, explain the £6 million Mr.Ozouf.
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That is ‘only’ an eye watering £100,000 per job!
Some of these people are going to walk away with a serious wedge plus an excellent pension.
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Perhaps now that redundancies have started the states should get their own house in order and get rid of the parish constables, who are only there because of extended family votes and have no mandate to govern ( St Helier the exception ) perhaps a Mayor. Will they go, do turkeys vote for Xmas ? Does Oz want them to go ? No they keep the right wing establishment of feudal government in power. Sort your own house out before you throw more workers on the scrap heap for the welfare system to pick up.
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So thats £100,000 per person; and the payback is….. over the next 100 years?
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That’s good news in my opinion, we can certainly ‘trim the fat’ and easily find 60 surplus employees in the public sector.
A quick walk or drive around town will certainly show that they are overstaffed.
I’m sure that the 60 which go will be the ones that can be spared most easily, so this should simply get rid of the lazy workshy ones and keep the decent workers, this will of course also leave a little more in the kitty to go around and perhaps they will actually get the pay-rise they were hoping for.
Time to start working for your money lads!
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I am completely and utterly confused. In 2009 the head count of States workers actually increased by forty new posts by the end of that year.
Credit to the council of ministers for trying to make savings.Early last year was the start of the financial meltdown.
In my small mind if they are letting sixty go now, why did they employ forty last year. Had they not paying twenty would result in £2 million not six so has this employing and then laying off cost £4 million plus pensions ?
I know some people are specialist ie doctors. Why not balance out the leaving and employing in a more rational manner saving millions.
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Only 60? 600 more like!!
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Anon no 5.
You make an excellent point about the constables.
The good news is that as the older people die off, the wish to keep them in the States also diminishes. This is evident if you look at the 2 mori polls that asked the question ‘Do you think the constables should remain in the states?’ One day the states will have address this and deal with it rather than just paying lip service to this issue. Keeping the constables is not numerically representative as the system discriminates against the poorer urban population. I am fed up of hearing the old boy network claiming that Jersey is democratic. While that is a broad description, it fails to address representation, something younger people seem to be much more attuned to.
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Informative
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Still too little too late, a desperate measure by a government who have lost control of departmental spending.
I was under the impression each departmental head had been asked to look at his budget and come forward with suggestion where savings and cuts could be made.
How many actually did this? The public have a right to know who is serving them to the best of their ability, and also the others who are resting on their laurels and do the bare minimum.
As suggested before why not cut the wages of each manager who is unable to make savings. If a section fails to make savings over a two year period, then the manager should be relieved of his position, with no redundancy pay.
I feel this would sharpen their senses, and also flush out the dead wood which is so abundant within the States.
The recession needs to be confronted head on and wishy washy measure such as this suggestion wont achieve anything.
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What a joke. Only the States would spend 100,000 of OUR money per employee. Can they not reduce numbers through natuaral wastage (people leaving/retiring) and redeploying existing staff?
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My Opinion (6) So thats £100,000 per person
Great, all the senior civil servants line their pockets before taking an early summer holiday.
With a civil service of about 5,000 a total moratorium on recruitment, combined with natural wastage, would achieve a manpower reduction of 60 in a matter of months, at nil cost! ‘Spend to save’ is the mantra of failed management.
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6 million quid to lay off a a few civil servants ? Mr Ozouf has now shown how ineffective he is and this is the man in charge of the island’s finances ! Don’t miss the opportunity to replace him at next year’s elections.
Put Crowcroft in charge – He’ll sort out the mass just as he did with the one at the town hall
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This is a cracking idea!
Let’s start by dismissing all those 1.1.(J) class economic migrants working for the States Civil Service.
And let us not pass over the “sacred cows”, such as Health.
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If sixty people can be let go …it must mean they either are no longer needed or perhaps never were.. so if they are not essential and we don’t need any of them ,just terminate the employment….or claim the dough back from whoever gave them any unnecessary contracts….
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