Public sector employees suspension and temporary staff (FOI)

​Request

A

How many States employees are currently suspended?

B

Of those suspended, for how long have they been suspended and how much have they been paid since their suspension?

C

How many recruitment agency staff are currently being employed by the States? 

D

How much has been paid annually by the States to recruitment agencies over the past five years? (please provide a breakdown by year)

E

Can you give the length of service of each existing recruitment agency States employee?

F

Are recruitment agency staff included in the States employee headcount?

G

How many States employees are there including and not including recruitment agency staff?

Response

A

6 people

B

To the date of the next suspension panel review meeting in August 2015, the average length of suspension will be 28 days. The total basic pay received from the date their suspension was initiated to this review data will be £21,369.

C

Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 allows a scheduled public authority to refuse an application if the information is accessible to the applicant by other means. The response to this question is already in the public domain, and for ease of reference the link is attached below:

Temporary Staff (FOI)

D

In addition to the 2014 data previously provided in an FOI respons , the table below present the payments made to recruitment agencies since 2010.

E

Following the response as detailed in answer C (above), the table below presents the number of agency staff contracted to the States of Jersey by their length of service as at April 2014.

F

No

G

For a direct comparison with the figures published relating to agency staff in April 2015 (as detailed in answer C above), the total headcount for the States of Jersey was as follows:

 For further figures relating to States headcount figures please see the published Labour Market report:

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