Derby City Council to axe another 350 jobs

“DCC have been cutting back on education support for the last year or so. I hope that these latest proposed cutbacks are not going to affect getting education provision in Derby out of this lamentable mire:

http://tinyurl.com/cxvbkd6”

“sm, I see you are up to your usual. Just google "highly salaried" and see if it is a commonly-used phrase. I'll give you a clue: it isn't. High salaried on the other hand is. Only in your world, eh sm.

Anyway, have you submitted that FOI request yet, in order to answer your loaded question?”

“No Neo, you don't know what I mean; high salaried positions suggests those at the very upper end of the salaried posts, highly salaried applies to many more who are on salaries but not at the upper end of the wage spectrum. If in doubt then don't assume, just ask.”

“MORE ON THE DOLE then weeks later they get offered jobs working for free just the dole money slave labour back to the dark ages .all these cuts cost more money as they have to be kept by the taxpayers unemployment benifits ,so daft really cut councillors expenses first ,we dont need a veladrome we have cycle tracks along the river and other places .who will use it /they wont be able to aford bikes most of derby will be unemployed at this rate .money wasted on the council house totaly unecasery . then theres an incinerator we dont want that will put rates up high the cost of building it /only to be used for 25 years plus the running costs once burn its a differnt thing its highly contaminated waste .in its original form it can be recycled and money earnt from it all . bayliss is so thick cant see through his glasses .he should go to specsavers then se a nut specailist .if he put dynamite where his brain is he d not blow his ears apart . whimp . only wants what he likes .elections due soon get him out .”

“Basically it's down to this: Keep the pound in your pocket or give it so someone can have a job and do the jobs you don't want to.
Also, I'd like to add that if those at the top at the Council earning a high wage were to take a wage cut, because you are Public Servants that WE pay for, then many of these people could be kept in jobs.
Front line, back room, they are jobs that have to be done.
How can Councillors and Management justify thier massive salaries when others have to go to subsidise them?”

“Why do not people understand the difference between capital cost and running cost!!! The capital cost will be paid back through revenue and provide jobs at the Veladrome and the new Swimming pool.This will be borrowed money leant to the City council under strict criteria, pretty much like a mortgage. Wages are overheads. This can not be funded with borrowed money. Simple. The spiral to disaster and the REASON WHY we are in the mess we are in. The living wage is great for those who receive it. Perhaps far better to stick to a minimum wage and reduce the redundancy toll. Living wage - All the pats on the back from Williamson et al. Now the ideology turns to reality.............”

“and yet they are intending pay to the living wage and can build a velodrome...oh and have built a new council house...”

“And yet they intend to pay the 'living' wage !”

“The problem will also be that the 'redundancies' will be done on a politically correct role-by-role basis, rather than actually looking at people's abilities. So someone who has 3 weeks a year off sick and is incompetent but who works in a more 'essential' role may keep their job, whereas an incredibly hard working and intelligent person may lose theirs if their job is deemed non-essential.

Plus a lot of the most experienced staff will have already taken voluntary redundancy given that they are the only ones for whom its financially viable with so many years service (bigger pay off).

Some common sense and business mindedness needs to be applied when making cuts of this size and you can more or less guarantee this wont be the case.”

“It's dreadful that so many public sector staff are losing their jobs all over the country. I know what is happening, it happened to me in March 2011 with no choice but to leave. So many jobs going everywhere in the private and public sector, the NHS too. I fear for the younger generations.”