Government of Jersey

Pay offers (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 17 December 2018.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

With regards to ongoing pay offers for 2018 & 2019, and those groups who are taking industrial action, or threatening to:

how much money in total by year, have each pay group been offered
on average how much is this per employee, per year, by pay group
on average, how much extra will this cost Jersey tax payers each year

With regards to the same pay groups as above:

how much money in total by year are each pay group asking for to accept the pay offer
on average how much would this be per employee, per year, by pay group
on average, how much extra will this cost Jersey tax payers each year

Please could you illustrate the above in a table format for ease of reading?

Response

As pay negotiations are ongoing, Article 39 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to this request.

Article Applied

Article 39 Employment

Information is qualified exempt information if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice pay or conditions negotiations that are being held between a public authority and –

(a) an employee or prospective employee of the authority; or

(b) representatives of the employees of the authority.

Justification

The Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) is withholding this information as it believes that to release it at this time could prejudice ongoing negotiations between the employer and its recognised trade unions.

Article 39 is a qualified exemption, which means that a public interest test is required to be undertaken by the SPA. It is therefore necessary for the scheduled public authority to examine the circumstances of the case. Following assessment the SPA has to decide whether, on balance, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. Although there is a need for transparency, accountability, and good decision making by public authorities this information relates to negotiations between the States of Jersey and their employees. On balance, it is our view that the public interest does not outweigh the potential prejudice of release.