Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
HCP—"Concerns over ‘gold-plated’ jobs at Haringey Council"
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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Tags for Forum Posts: Gold, other people's money, out of control, racket, senior management
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney
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I hate to break it to you Clive but £100-200,000 aren't massive salaries for quality, senior leaders and technically skilled individual contributors. There are a quite a few schools in Haringey with head masters/mistresses leading large teams, senior specialists leading medical services, a couple of lawyers and financial managers etc. I do, however, take your point about the Director of Culture. I think most people would prefer the budget for that post to be reallocated to libraries.
Supply and demand also play a role. Haringey Council has a horrendous reputation. It's a byword for incompetence, 'wokery' and poor performance among many professions. You'll always be able to find numpties to fill roles but if you want good people you need to reward them well. In part this is to pay them for the difficulty of working in such an environment and trying to improve it but also to compensate them for the stain it would leave on their CV.
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