NEXT month’s industrial tribunal to resolve the pay dispute between the States and its manual staff will have a significance that goes beyond simple labour relations.
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Pleased the reforms are being driven
GP Opinion
August 19, 2008 – 2:30 pm
GUERNSEY’S Treasury minister has highlighted two areas of concern about the way the States looks after public finances. The first is the operation of a fund designed to maintain the ports and the second is the accepted practice of departments holding on to money they have not spent.
Permission to speakGP Opinion
August 18, 2008 – 2:30 pm
IN his interview in the Guernsey Press Inside Politics column today in page 14, Deputy David De Lisle reflects that he will probably do a better job as a deputy now that he has lost his job on the Policy Council and become a ‘back-bencher’.
Jersey needs to put the record rightGP Opinion
August 15, 2008 – 2:30 pm
THE TIMES used its second most prominent news page yesterday to carry further police criticism of the difficulties being experienced in getting suspects in the Haut de la Garenne child abuse inquiry charged and before Jersey’s courts.
A ‘no strike’ stance could earn respectGP Opinion
August 14, 2008 – 2:30 pm
LEADERS of the union Unite are today looking increasingly marginalised as it emerged that they have turned down a near-RPI settlement and the States negotiating body expressed its concerns about its conduct and the on-going threat of strike action.
Position: impossibleGP Opinion
August 13, 2008 – 2:30 pm
IN A LETTER here earlier this month, leading advocate and former States member Roger Perrot touched, in a much wider item of correspondence, on financial services regulation and what he described as ‘the continuing wish of our regulators to regulate to a platinum standard’. Despite that, Guernsey and Jersey had managed to outpace their rivals.
More strikes will only weaken caseGP Opinion
August 12, 2008 – 2:30 pm
MANUAL staff employed by the States of Guernsey have a decision to make – whether to take further industrial action in support of their above-RPI pay claim or accept that an arbitrated settlement is inevitable and simply await its arrival. Under the island’s labour laws, failure to negotiate a deal means one of two things: […]
A stain on our island’sGP Opinion
August 11, 2008 – 1:20 pm
SO THAT’S all right then. Panic over. Thousands of gallons of raw sewage are no longer pouring into the sea every hour of every day from various pipes around the island polluting beaches and representing a health hazard to bathers.
Instead, thousands of gallons are pouring into the sea just below the low water mark at […]
Leave bully boy out of kiosk warsGP Opinion
August 8, 2008 – 2:30 pm
ATTEMPTS by the Treasury Department and the Crown Officers to close a local kiosk unless its owners of 17 years conform to bureaucratic convention took a disturbing turn yesterday.
‘Unfit’ claim is just half the storyBy Subs
AN ANNOUNCEMENT by the Policy Council that it has accepted a conclusion from an independent report that there is a case for reconsidering the way in which the States engages with its employees over pay and conditions had all the appearances of being issued in haste.