Contracting Out

[drplokta]

Looks like any remaining in-house cleaning contracts in the Civil Service and NHS are getting contracted out, pronto. David Cameron plans to pay managers more if they can get all of their low-paid staff off their organisation's payroll and onto someone else's.

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[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

And the other shoe has dropped on bonuses. For the last ten years, instead of giving SCS rises in line with the recommendations, we've been given less, often much less, with some of the remainder being diverted into a 'bonus pot'. That bonus pot is about 10% of the paybill and I don't suppose there's a single senior civil servant who'd rather have the bonus than the diverted pay. And now, of course, the bonuses are going to be taken away without compensation; ie, 10% pay cut. And as far as I can tell, whether you get a bonus or not bears no relation to anything whatsoever to do with your year's work other than blind luck.

[andrewducker]

And, of course, bonuses don't count towards pensions (if you're lucky enough to be on a final salary pension of some kind).