For the first time, official projections were given on the likely number of public-sector posts targeted to go if the States accept the Resource Plan which they continued to debate today.Earlier this week the Finance and Economics Committee said that up to 900 jobs could go if plans for even more swingeing spending curbs proposed by St Helier Constable Simon Crowcroft were supported by the States.
Those proposals were defeated in the House this morning.Yesterday in the States, the P & R politician with responsibility for human resources, Deputy Maurice Dubras, said that up to 600 posts would be lost by 2008.
However, today P & R president Senator Frank Walker stressed that there was ‘a real difference between posts and jobs’.
