DIFFICULT conversations about under-performance are had with States staff where necessary, according to its head of HR.

AROUND 50 civil servants could lose their jobs if the States approves proposals radically to overhaul its administration and IT systems.

THE States hired 89 additional ‘civil servants’ during 2009, it has been revealed.

CIVIL servants will get an extra 0.5% pay rise if the States lives within its budget.

CIVIL servants have agreed to a pay freeze for this year.

MOST of Guernsey’s top civil servants are refusing to say whether they will follow their chief executive’s example and freeze their pay for 2010.

CIVIL SERVANTS are refusing to renegotiate their inflation busting pay deal, despite yesterday’s record-breaking deflation figure of -1.2% RPI.

ONE of the persistent criticisms of the way the States negotiates with its employees via the Public Sector Remuneration Committee is that PSRC members have all the power but no responsibility.

OVER the last few days, Comment has looked at some of the implications of the 3% minimum pay deal struck with around 2,500 States employees and also at the wider implications of payroll costs on the States’ professed policy of public spending restraint.

POLITICIANS responsible for negotiating what looks set to be an inflation-busting pay deal for States employees yesterday refused to explain why they had done so.