Concerns over ‘gold-plated’ jobs at Haringey Council

(Haringey Community Press)

When last I checked, a little over 40 (forty) council employees were paid between £100,000 and £200,000. Some of them may be worth it, but the 40+ figure is the highest or among the highest in London.

"… it’s certainly something that we try to reduce … continue to focus on reducing those numbers”.

The largesse has been going on for years. The claimed efforts to "reduce" have not been as effective as the "savings" this crew have wrought from our Libraries. It may be more accurate to say the council has lost control of senior managers salaries. Including annual pension (£29K) the Director of Culture is paid c. £195,000 p.a. as our library opening hours are slashed.

There once was a time when municipal staff were motivated largely by a sense of duty, public service, job security and generous pensions. Nowadays its more about bars of council bullion: our money.

The council paying top-dollar to employees does not always lead to top-of-London results.

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