States made 37 £100k-plus appointments last year

States made 37 £100k-plus appointments last year

The States Employment Board, which deals with employment issues on behalf of the States, approved all applications made to it at that salary level in 2017.

It is the highest number since at least 2011 – the year such figures became publicly available.

Although figures for the number of past approvals is not known, there were eight applications for salaries of more than £100,000 in 2016.

The second-highest figure during the last seven years was in 2012, when there were 26 applications.

Last year, Health had the highest number of approvals (15) and the Chief Minister’s Department was second with nine.

Among the applications, ten were for consultants being paid daily rates of between £550 and £1,350 per day. All of the consultants – who include the four who made up States chief executive Charlie Parker’s original ‘transition team’ – were on, or remain on, temporary contacts.

The deputy comptroller of taxes was the job with the highest salary approved during 2017, with a range agreed of between £140,000 and £150,000.

Eight hospital consultant jobs were approved with salaries of between £78,281 and £142,453, while the new Hospital managing director Rob Sainsbury is being paid between £130,00 and £140,000, according to the report.

The £100,000 to £110,000 salary of new Children’s Commissioner Deborah McMillan also appears in the report.

Meanwhile, the report shows that headcount in the public sector increased by 48 last year – but there was a reduction in the number of non-locally qualified people employed.

As of 31 December, there were a total of 6,754 people working in the States, compared to 6,706 the same time a year before. Health was the biggest employer with 2,569 staff with Education next with 2,002.

Of those employed by the States, 60 were non-locally qualified registered employees – representing 0.9 per cent of staff. That compares to 76 the year before and 1.1 per cent. A further 533 were ‘licensed’, a drop of six on the previous year.

During 2017 the board, which was made up of Chief Minister Ian Gorst, Health Minister Andrew Green, Treasury Minister Alan Maclean, St Mary Constable Juliette Gallichan and St Martin Constable Michel Le Troquer, with Housing Minister Anne Pryke joining part way through the year, also considered a number of other ‘key matters’.

They included public sector reform and workforce modernisation, pay negotiations and pensions.

It also received a report following the death of an elderly dementia patient at St Saviour’s Hospital, for which the States was prosecuted under the Health and Safety Law and fined £50,000.

The report says: ‘The board endorsed the action that had been taken to ensure that similar incidents did not re-occur and offered a formal apology to the patient’s family.’

Meanwhile, the report shows that the average States employee took nine sick days in 2017, equating to 4.1 per cent of total work days being lost.

Staff turnover in the public sector was 13.5 per cent in 2017 – largely unchanged on the year before – with the majority of people leaving the organisation and 1.7 per cent moving between departments.

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