Government of Jersey employees since 2018 (FOI)

Request

A

Please state the number of people in the employment of the Government of Jersey, including those on zero hour contracts, for the years 2018 to 2022.

B

How many posts were filled during the years 2018 to 2022 by employing applicants from outside Jersey?

C

Please state the number of persons employed in all individual Government of Jersey owned entities, such as The Ports Authorities, Andium Homes, JEC, Telecoms, and the JDC.

D

How many Government of Jersey employees and employees of Government of Jersey owned entities are paid over £100,000.00 per annum?

Response 

A

The number of persons employed by the Government of Jersey is publicly available in the Government of Jersey Annual Report and Accounts published on www.gov.je. Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied. Please see the links below:

2022 Annual Report and Accounts.pdf (gov.je)  Page 184

2021 Annual Report and Accounts.pdf (gov.je)  Page 272

2020 Annual Report and Accounts.pdf (gov.je)  Page 206

2019 Annual Report and Accounts.pdf (gov.je)  Page 147

2018 Annual Report and Accounts.pdf (gov.je)  Page 158

Zero Hour Contracts

Below are the headcounts for unique zero-hour roles in Government for the years 2019 to 2023, taken at the end of each year (2023 data is based on 30 September 2023). 

This only includes employees who are purely on a zero-hour contract and who do not also have a substantive role within the Government of Jersey. 

Any zero hour employees who were not engaged in work for the 12 months prior to each data cut, have been excluded to show those who are actively working for the Government. 

Due to a change in the way this information is recorded, it has been estimated that the cost of extracting the data from 2018 would exceed the cost limit provisions set out in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Article 16(1) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

B

The information requested is not held by the Government of Jersey. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies. Information is held as to who is employed on a licence however this data does not indicate which of those individuals were employed from outside of Jersey. 

C

The information requested is not held by the Government of Jersey. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.   

D

Please refer to the Annual Reports and Accounts, as linked above, for those employed directly by the States Employment Board. As this information is publicly available, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law has been applied. 

For state-owned entitles, the information requested is not held by the Government of Jersey. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.   

Articles applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.