Personnel Today have set up a handy list of recent redundancies in the UK, listed by employer, please email mike.berry@rbi.co.uk so that he can keep it updated.
Christina Speight, who emailed me this, reckoned that there were 3,000-odd public sector jobs cuts, out of "Total employees made redundant since September 2008: 81,294".
Seeing as 'only' one-in-four people work for the State, that means a private sector worker is about nine times as likely to lose his or her job as one in the bloated public sector. Plus, the public sector is created new jobs far faster than it scraps old ones.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Personnel Today's "Redundancy Tracker"
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This is a) why they get paid less for the same job spec b) a very good thing given that *anything* to prop up confidence and spending is a good idea at this stage.
Millions of 'em get far paid too much for doing sweet f-all. What's the private sector comparative for a Race Relations Officer? It'd be better to give them a cheque for half a year's salary and tell them to go find a proper job.
Erm, John B. No. Public Sector do NOT get paid less for the same job, if you factor in all the benefits, especially the pension.
Pension's are deferred pay. Public Sector employers (e.g. me and MW - I don't know who you work for John B, or do you go to work on a sloop?) pay up to 30% of salary roll to support the profligately run public sector pension scheme.
Q E D public sector pay is 30% greater than shown by take home plus employment taxes, or rather plus rebates to the rest of us.
...and if it was not for the extortionate taxes I pay I would be able to employ someone else. I can find the work for them. That job is the cost of a public sector non-job somewhere.
Purely my opinion of course but sacking 500,000 non-front line public sector workers would do wonders for the confidence of the rest of us. The sight of a few (or better, a lot of) unemployed race relations/diversity officers queueing up at JobsPlus would lift the nation's spirits.
"Purely my opinion of course but sacking 500,000 non-front line public sector workers would do wonders for the confidence of the rest of us."
/cheer
hahaha sloop.
private sector whole career. companies ranging from the largest private sector white-collar employer in the world [*] through to the small-ish company where I'm second-in-line to the CEO at the minute. sorry to be a bit trumpet-blowing here, but you started it.
"What's the private sector comparative for a Race Relations Officer?"
gbp40k for a medium-sized company, running up to well over 100k for a ftse100 company.
[*] under some definitions; top 5 under all.
JB, let me rephrase that:
"In the absence of all this PC fuckwittery and government control freakery, would companies voluntarily employ Race Relations Officers at all?"
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