Council electrician is paid £124,000 p.a.

[DodgyAgent]

We are. But we don't use agencies.

I don't think I've changed anything though, 10 years ago I'd say the same thing: my education was in economics/finance and I understood these processes pretty well some time ago...

It was not very long ago that you were lecturing to me that I should be spending my time placing poor out of work people. Whereas I was arguing that I should be fulfilling the needs of the market and not bothering with people who are not placeable.

I would imagine that with your huge network of close personal contacts that you would not need to use agencies

[AtW]

You seem to have changed your tune to talking as if you are the employer

We are. But we don't use agencies.

I don't think I've changed anything though, 10 years ago I'd say the same thing: my education was in economics/finance and I understood these processes pretty well some time ago...

[DodgyAgent]

Something is very wrong when overtime greatly exceeds normal salary.

If there was a requirement to work in non-social hours (ie at night) then a job post could have been advertised for say £50k or something, good money surely?

You seem to have changed your tune to talking as if you are the employer

[AtW]

a poll on whether the Tories would have handled the economy any better than Brown show's 68% of people think not.

And that is probably true - Osborne is a light weight and Dave is trying to soften talk of cuts that are totally necessary.

[DimPrawn]

Report dated January 10th. Not a fast reader then, DimPrawn.

What's the problem anyway? Perhaps the bonus was a couple of grand and the bulk of it was overtime?

If you (and millions like you) can't see anything wrong with a council paying an employee electrician £124,000 p.a. out of tax payers money for fixing some wires, changing some fuses etc, then this country is surely heading for bankruptcy.

I also note that the Tory lead in opinion polls is vanishing and a poll on whether the Tories would have handled the economy any better than Brown show's 68% of people think not.

Doomed mate.

[Bright Spark]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6982335.ece
By contrast, a minister of state such as Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, earns £106,136.
.

Ahh but your missing the expenses she can claim which can be a lot more
than the salary! .

[DodgyAgent]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6982335.ece

A council electrician has earned pay and bonuses of £124,000 in a year — far outstripping the remuneration of a minister of state or the head of a large comprehensive.

He claimed more than £90,000 in overtime, backdated pay and “stand-by” allowances. By contrast, a minister of state such as Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, earns £106,136.

Details of the electrician’s pay emerged in documents released by the UK’s biggest council, which show that 58 other workers, including binmen, gardeners and gravediggers, were paid bonuses of up to £20,000 each. Women cleaners, care workers and lollipop ladies now claim they should have been included in Birmingham city council’s generous bonus scheme and are seeking up to £100,000 compensation each.



Only Labour can make ordinary people well off.

This would never happen under the Tories.

I know which one presents the most value

[AtW]

Perhaps the bonus was a couple of grand and the bulk of it was overtime?

Something is very wrong when overtime greatly exceeds normal salary.

If there was a requirement to work in non-social hours (ie at night) then a job post could have been advertised for say £50k or something, good money surely?

[NotAllThere]

Report dated January 10th. Not a fast reader then, DimPrawn.

What's the problem anyway? Perhaps the bonus was a couple of grand and the bulk of it was overtime?

[Bright Spark]

shocking!

[Jeebo72]

It would round off this governments term quite nicely if a binman got a £20K bonus

[Drewster]

.......a minister of state such as Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, earns £106,136...

'Kin outragous!! WTF does an "Olympics Minister" do to earn more than 100 grand......

[DimPrawn]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6982335.ece

A council electrician has earned pay and bonuses of £124,000 in a year — far outstripping the remuneration of a minister of state or the head of a large comprehensive.

He claimed more than £90,000 in overtime, backdated pay and “stand-by” allowances. By contrast, a minister of state such as Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, earns £106,136.

Details of the electrician’s pay emerged in documents released by the UK’s biggest council, which show that 58 other workers, including binmen, gardeners and gravediggers, were paid bonuses of up to £20,000 each. Women cleaners, care workers and lollipop ladies now claim they should have been included in Birmingham city council’s generous bonus scheme and are seeking up to £100,000 compensation each.



Only Labour can make ordinary people well off.

This would never happen under the Tories.