Members to question golden handshake pay-offs in States
Tuesday 31st May 2011, 2:55PM BST.
Deputy Phil Rondel is one of those who will be asking about the terms of senior managers’ employment
QUESTIONS on why hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money was given in pay-offs to senior States managers will be asked in the States Chamber next week.
At least one States Member is understood to be asking a question during next Tuesday’s sitting about golden handshakes paid to the former States chief executive Bill Ogley and former chief officer of Health and Social Services Mike Pollard.
The two men received pay-offs totalling £800,000 between them, with Mr Ogley reportedly receiving £500,000 and Mr Pollard £300,000.
Over the weekend Deputy Phil Rondel had applied to the States Greffe to change a question he was due to ask next week on moorings to one about the golden handshakes.
However his request to ask that question has been turned down, according to the States Greffe, because another Member is already due to ask a question on the issue and the two were thought to be too similar.
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So it s been pocketed…
Make s me sick.
They are looking to fund a new hospital at 300 million and you have to wait 6 month to have your teeth taken out via social.
Ratio for the 6% of my wages every month and the service: very close to ZERO
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In the case of a person being made redundent in the real world, and receiving a lump sum, is that sum still not income and liable to the tax man taking 20%.
In the case of Mr Ogley and Mr Pollard being given between them £800,000 will the tax man be claiming back £160,000 ie tax at 20% ?
If not, why not and please do not tell us it’s in the contract if it is who wrote the contract Mr Pollards wife ?
Davey West.
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Doesn’t matter who ..so long as it is addressed properly….let’s be havin’ya
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What’s the point the phrase ‘horse has bolted’ comes to mind!!!!!
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I just hope that the question that has “already been asked” covers the same ground otherwise it is purely just another example of the Jersey establishment cop out
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‘…Deputy Phil Rondel had applied to the States Greffe to change a question he was due to ask next week on moorings’.
Ha ha priceless.
Locking stable doors & horses already bolting come to mind.
I would stick to concerning yourself with trivial Phil – the grass verges are looking a bit unkempt.
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Absolute fury with these people. On one hand bumping up the taxes to fill the hole they made, then paying themselves handsomely with the other, right in our faces. And the best response is someone raising a question once it’s already gone through. What a revolution!
Who’s representing the people here? Why do we all feel that the government is constantly trying to deceive us?
It’s coming up to election time, and short of a few well-timed crowd-pleaser announcements, I’ve not seen evidence of any actual hard hitting representatives who are going to stir things up in that wretched, outdated government that the general population are extremely dissatified with.
What an absolute mess.
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What are you going to do smack the legs of whom ever employed these people or who negotiated the contracts
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Let’s face it the two men in question have not been up to the job come again? Whatever happened to top wages for top people to do top jobs? Just collect your p45 as you depart and don’t slam the door on your way out
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Yeah,there’s more to this than meets the eye.
It is obvious not straightforward as they would like us to think.
The Jersey way—-you bet
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