Former pay body chairman defends committee’s actions

Saturday 24th April 2010, 2:29PM BST.

Al Brouard THE Public Sector Remuneration Committee had to work within its mandate, the former chairman has said.

Deputy Al Brouard (pictured) made the comments after a Tribunal of Inquiry report into the airport firefighters’ walkout in May was published yesterday.

The report criticises the way the committee dealt with the situation and did not approve of the ‘traditional’ way it had handled negotiations, with a ‘one-size fits all’ approach.

‘The States said at the time that public sector pay had to be contained with RPI or less,’ said Deputy Brouard.

There had been flexibility in that, he said, but said that the gulf between the two parties was too large.

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Pete

April 25, 2010 at 3:48 am

Deputy Al Brouard is right, but I could have told him that 20 years ago. Couple that with a culture of arrogance within the PSRC’s long serving senior civil servants and the Airport Firemen’s dispute was an inevitability.
Hopefully Simon Elliott the new chief officer for the PSRC has put an end to the latter, but it remains to be seen wether States Members can overcome their prejudice against States Workers to intoduce a fair and flexible system of pay assesment and RPI ajustments.

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