In the money …

The number of town hall bosses in Scotland on lucrative pay and remuneration packages has increased in the past year, it has emerged. The amount of staff on deals topping £50,000 across the country went up by 135.

The local government pension scheme is one of the most generous around, providing 1/49th of salary for each year of service and better than the usual “gold-plated” accrual rate of 1/60th. An employee on £30,000 with 30 per cent of salary with the employer contributing roughly 12 per cent or £3,750. Plus life cover of £90,000 and survivor’s and children’s pensions.

soundbase This is just one of the things we know is wrong but it is allowed to continue and it will continue. It is like asking a parent if it is right they gave a job to their own wife or child rather than some other non-related person. They will justify it and continue because they can and there is nothing you or I can do about it.

I know you know

The usual argument is that you have to pay these overinflated salaries to “attract the best candidates”. Well, just look at the state of council services in your area and ask yourself if there is any evidence that the best candidates are being employed!

Reality Demands To Be Heard

Why is a council office worker not allowed to look out of the window in the morning? Because then he or she has nothing to do in the afternoon.

It’s Snp-land, the land of the haves and have-nots. The haves live at Holyrood, Victoria Quay, council offices and law firms. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. The rest of us can go and hang. Since the advent of Holyrood, Scotland has become deeply rotten.

Hoditanddodit

What annoys me even more is that these people are taken on at vast salaries and perks because we need so-called “high calibre” people to run a council. But they pocket the money then get severance payment and/or early retirement and lo and behold, they then get taken on for the same job as an independent adviser. Who’s paying? Us.

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After the slaughter of SNP MSPS at the next elections they will all slot seamlessly back into the high-end nonjobs in the public services they have helped create and maintain for “the rainy day”.

Bill Dutch

Councils needs streamlined big-time. If you can hold a clipboard it’s a job for life.

John Laidlaw