Well my 2 week holiday passed well and I have also returned from a Conference 'up north' last week feeling well-relaxed - until I saw the front page of the County Press at Portsmouth yesterday......'£300,000 pay rise for top Council officers'. Got my blood pressure right up.
It seems that the Cabinet meeting I missed this week has agreed a new top management structure to ensure the new semi-detached, £150,000 per annum Chief Executive is well-supported. You couldn't make it up ! Adverts have already been placed for new top managers and this Tory Council continues on its merry way of taking the p**s out of low-paid Islanders, and without anyone at Cabinet to at least try to challenge them.
Ironically, whilst I was away our Scrutiny report on Wightcare seems to have ruffled quite a number of Tory feathers - and all it does is try to ensure the transfer of low-paid, mainly female home carers to the private sector is deferred whilst a proper review is undertaken into this in-house service. At a part year cost of not much more than £300k !
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Welcome back Geoff. Loved the porcine image! How can the new council justify 7 directors plus a Cx plus an Assistant CX, when the old council had only four directors, one of whom was also the CX? And at the same time they are sacking anyone who they can't sell off. This is nuts!
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