Rough Times Ahead........

warmhands.coldheart

So 10% of Public Sector workers to go apparently.
That's 20,000 heads to role over the next 4 years.
As the public sector in the form of the civil service is significantly concentrated in Belfast, that's a lot of job losses for an area......

I know 3 people already who have had the voluntary redundancy letters... none want to take it as, although decent amounts of money, all are worried they will not get another job with similar "working conditions"..... ie. (no flexi time and full sick pay)

I know you'll get a lot of those close to retirement will jump at the chance.... however are we then going to get a repeat of what happened in the PSNI? All the older experienced folk with specialist skills leaving taking with them that wealth of knowledge they have built up and then the civil service will have to start re-employing them as contractors or consultants...?

Fun times ahead !!!

steveymp

Can't really see any compulsory redundancies in the short term. As you say a lot of 60's and over will take the packages on offer.

I know quite a few over 55's in the health service rubbing their hands awaiting their offers when it comes their time This will probably be their last chance at an early escape tunnel and they know it. Pensions will be topped up and lump sums bandied about, there will be a queue forming

Unfortunately for me in my early 40's with only 23 years service the only way i'll get out early is in a box

warmhands.coldheart

steveymp wrote: »

Can't really see any compulsory redundancies in the short term. As you say a lot of 60's and over will take the packages on offer.

I know quite a few over 55's in the health service rubbing their hands awaiting their offers when it comes their time This will probably be their last chance at an early escape tunnel and they know it. Pensions will be topped up and lump sums bandied about, there will be a queue forming

Unfortunately for me in my early 40's with only 23 years service the only way i'll get out early is in a box

Are they expecting redundancies in the health service? I thought it was more Civil Service rather than Health Service.... Yes I know they are all still Public Sector but I thought Health service had already made a lot of cost savings and from news they are always saying they are understaffed....

Thought it was more like OFMDFM, Department of Agriculture, DRD, Culture, Arts & Leisure, employment & learning and all those sorts of departments....

steveymp

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Are they expecting redundancies in the health service? I thought it was more Civil Service rather than Health Service.... Yes I know they are all still Public Sector but I thought Health service had already made a lot of cost savings and from news they are always saying they are understaffed....

Thought it was more like OFMDFM, Department of Agriculture, DRD, Culture, Arts & Leisure, employment & learning and all those sorts of departments....

Health Service very understaffed at the 'Coal Face' lots of behind the scenes deadwood to be culled thou IMHO

Every nurse has an assistant manager, who answers to a manager, who answers to an assistant director, who answers to a director, who answers to the CEO, who answers to the Trust Board who answer to faceless Civil Servants who then answer to some muppet MLA who wouldn't know which end of a rectal thermometer goes where

Bring back the Matrons and cull half the deadwood in between the Chief and the Nurses and Doctors, big cost saving there Maybe use some of that to employ more much needed frontline staff

warmhands.coldheart

steveymp wrote: »

......Bring back the Matrons and cull half the deadwood in between the Chief and the Nurses and Doctors, big cost saving there Maybe use some of that to employ more much needed frontline staff

You'd need a management team in to do that though :rotfl:

in_need_of_direction

And a firm of consultants to advise.

warmhands.coldheart

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

And a firm of consultants to advise.

...... and then they'd still make a complete hash of it !!