More senior civil servants to step down
Wednesday 23rd February 2011, 2:58PM GMT.
Planning director Peter Thorne is taking voluntary redundancy
TWO top civil servants in the Planning and Environment department are stepping down.
They follow a number of senior civil servants, including States chief executive Bill Ogley, who have recently decided to leave.
Four staff at Planning and Environment – including Planning director Peter Thorne and head of fisheries Simon Bossy – have taken voluntary redundancy.
Three long-serving planning officers have been promoted to director level on their existing salaries.
Planning say that this will save the department £280,000 as part of the States comprehensive spending review, which aims to save £50 million by 2013.
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I have always advocated that the cull should start at the top. Good job Terry, just ensure we do not now backfill with more of the same.
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They must be joking ! This is a con as it will cost hundreds of thousands in redundancy payments and top ups to final salary schemes as part of their packages. It would probably cheaper to make them work to normal retirement age,,oh no sorry we will probaby re-hire them as “consultants at £18k a week!!
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Why would you stay when you get enough money in a few years to retire on?
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Haven’t really got a lot of choice Tricky……
Will hopefully save in the long run if they don’t look to replace or don’t incrementally increase the 3 new guys’ salaries as much…..
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It just shows that this is a complete waste of time. A paper exercise in trying to look good. I note that the figures that the above gentleman (and others) are not being released(?). No doubt they just wouldn’t add up.
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Good riddance, now really save money and don’t replace the posts..
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It is incredible that they could spin this so that it sounds like money is being saved, these people are being paid off with taxpayers hard earned money to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
They are a few years away from retiring and this has only filled their pockets with more of our cash.
How frustrating for the Jersey taxpayer. Nothing is being saved. More non jobs are being created daily with the inevitable wage bill rising accordingly.
More taxes to come I think.
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Tricky – you are tight ! It is a con
Most of those who were “accepted” for voluntary redundacy were close to retirement and had been there for many years. Quite a few friends and cronies of our politians They are laughing all the way to the bank and all this talk about money being saved is just spin ( our politicians are full of it )
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why did the states not wait until Jan 1st and make these fat cats compulsory redundant and save much more, as this is what will happen to many other states employees in the future, or is it the old boys network at it again ?
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2. Tricky is correct in saying that they will come back as consultants…who would pass up the chance of earning £18,000 per month as a consultant.
The treasury minister stated that the States will save £3 million pound with these redundancies but all we see is senior employees been replaced with £900 a day consultants. Thats the £3 million pound gone already.
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We have had this back in the 90’s with Civil Servants being offered huge redundancy payments or early retirement on enhanced pensions. It takes years for before the public see any benefit and by that time the post has been filled twice over. Fact – we now employ more Civil servants at higher salaries than ever before. Why then should we have any confidence this time? We are told that these jobs are now surplus when in reality they were always unnecessary. Nobody in the States seems to have any idea of even how much most of these bozos are even paid to the nearest £100k
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And this has nothing to do with the Regs Skips fiasco. This place is rotten to it’s core……
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I don’t believe Simon Bossy is a ‘fat cat’. He is a Jersey-born man who qualified as a marine biologist, or something like that, in the ’70′s when it was a fairly obscure science, and he has worked in Fisheries for at least 20, if not 30 years. I have not seen him for many years, but I know this much about him. He is probably aged about 60.
People should be careful what they say. He is definitely not in the same category as people appointed from the UK like Andrew MacLean of the hospital fiasco.
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Ifou believe this place is rotten to to the core ,why not hop on the boat to Burma in the morning
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Bondit, today all states workers got details of the redundancy packages about to take effect, the last 6 million on 71 workers was totally wasted. some were for manual workers, but the majority of the dosh was paid out to people who would have got at least half the payout if they took it on the new offer out today, now, something very fishy going on here, possibly the old boys network, but if these people did get a big pay out good luck to them, once again the states HR dept have dropped a huge clanger, this is not a personal thing to the people who got vast payoffs. but some only had a few years left before they retired anyway its scandalous.
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