[tweetmeme] Continuing with the theme of redundancy born out of government austerity measures (see so much more than job losses); despite the fact it still appears to be yesterday’s news, I found some of the figures relating to those redundancies in North Yorkshire interesting. I feel the need to ask the police and political leaders of the County some important questions…
Why the apparent disparity in redundancy figures across the public services of North Yorkshire? Are some areas within our local authorities more efficient (or important) than others? Do the figures involved actually represent the true numbers of people required to perform a task? Why the apparent urgency to implement cuts in one area of these services and not the others? What consideration has been taken of public opinion? Are the figures I can find on the internet a true reflection of the situation or, have they been ‘massaged’ in any way? And if so, for what reason? Is the police force really as over staffed as the Chief Constable and his local political side-kicks would have us believe? Who is protecting who and for what reasons?
| Staffing / Organisation | York City Council | N.Yorks County Council | North Yorkshire Police |
| 2011 Establishment | 5,350 | 24,000 | 2,946 |
| 2012 Establishment | 5,200 | 23,670 | 2,586 |
| Redundancy Plan (Yr1) | 150 | 330 | 360 |
So many questions and there are probably more, pity we never seem to get any straight answers? That’s politics for you I suppose!
Just thought I’d ask?
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Dave's Bankside Babble 
I always wonder why people are so scared of redundancy. After all, there is always a vibrant private sector waiting for everyone’s skills out there! We might ask how much is saved by redundancies, as there is a formula that tells us what we save after making payments and letting others soak up the extra work. My own view is that there are no savings as the good leave and their work is taken up and done badly by frightened slackers. I favour keeping people, but cutting wages on a sliding scale from the top and removing pension perks with everyone getting what people on the basic rate get.
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I think the major issue is not so much how “scared of redundancy” people are, it may well be more about the methodology employed to implement the process? The self-replicating and self-important self-protection of public sector management structures are much to blame and little cognisance of worth to the process is actually applied. I concure with your idea for “keeping people, but cutting wages on a sliding scale from the top and removing pension perks with everyone getting what people on the basic rate get” as a great starter to fixing the problems!
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One of my Facebook readers said…
“NYCC are recruiting a “change manager” at 60k a year! It would be interesting to see how many managers lost their post and to ask why none of the current ones could take on this post?”
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