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WQ.486/2019
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE CHAIR OF THE STATES EMPLOYMENT BOARD BY DEPUTY S.M. AHIER OF ST. HELIER
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 12th NOVEMBER 2019
Question
Will the Chair advise the Assembly –
- how much money has been paid from the Redundancy Provision in relation to Voluntary Release and Compulsory Redundancies from the inception of the Provision in 2015 to the current date;
- how many employees have received such payments; and
- at which Tiers these individuals were employed?
Answer
- Since the scheme was launched in 2015 a total of £9.4m has been paid out for VR and a total of £975k has been paid out for CR from the Redundancy Provision. The table below provides a breakdown by year:
Please note, these figures relate solely to VR's and CR's that have been paid from the Central Redundancy Provision and therefore does not include CR's funded by departments
Year | VR | CR |
2015 | £4.7m |
|
2016 | £2.9m (Excl. £6.88m Transferred to Restructuring) | £818k |
2017 | £608K | £106k |
2018 | £705K | £25k |
2019 (Jan – Sept) | £603K | £26k |
TOTAL: | £9.4m | £975k |
- A total of 214 VR applications have been approved to date. The table below provides a breakdown by year:
Year | Number of Approved VR Applications |
2015 | 105 |
2016 | 78 |
2017 | 11 |
2018 | 10 |
2019 (Jan – September) | 10 |
TOTAL | 214 |
A total of 72 people have been made compulsory redundant to date. The table below provides a breakdown by year:
Year | Number of Employees made Compulsory Redundant | Tiers |
2015 | 0 | Tiers were not used as terminology during this period 2x Tier 4 |
2016 | 49 | |
2017 | 20 | |
2018 | 2 | |
2019 | 1 | 1 x Tier 1 |
TOTAL | 72 |
|
Cost of Producing Answer
As a means of giving an approximate indication to the time and cost of producing an answer to a written question, it has been decided that answers shall include a cost, broken down by civil service grade:
Civil Servant Grade 8 x 1 hour: £26 Civil Servant Grade 13 x 30 minutes: £20 DG Level x15 minutes: £20.25
Total: £66.25