States of Jersey employees (FOI)

​Request

A

Amount of staff employed, resigned, taken voluntary redundancy (VR), dismissed or contract not renewed with the Social Security Department between 1 June 2015 to date for the States of Jersey and the Social Security Department.

B

Appeals and tribunals to formal disciplinary actions for all States of Jersey departments carried out from 1 June 2015 to date.

C

Total cost of appeals and tribunals to formal disciplinary actions for all States of Jersey departments carried out from 1 June 2015 to date.

Response

A

Table 1 below shows, by department and on a monthly basis, the amount of staff from June 2015 to August 2016. It is also noted that, during this period, certain functions transferred between departments, mainly Jersey Property Holdings from Treasury & Resources to the Department for Infrastructure, and Sport and Culture from Education to Economic Development.  Information regarding the above movements can be found via the link below:

Download Draft States of Jersey Transfer of Functions No.8 (size 157 kb)

Download Table 1 - Number of States of Jersey Employees (size 8.23kb)

Due to certain departments having low levels of resignations, dismissals and voluntary redundancies, we are unable to provide a table by department, reason and month, to protect the identify of individuals who left for those reasons, consequently, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has also been applied to this request. However, we are able to show, by department, a consolidated view of the amount of staff that left due to the reasons listed below:

• resignation
• contract expiry
• dismissal
• voluntary redundancy

This information is shown in Table 2 below:

Table 2

*Department for Infrastructure includes:

• Jersey Car Parks
• Jersey Fleet Management

B

Given that the number of appeals and tribunals from formal disciplinary cases is very low (less than 10) we are unable to provide a breakdown by department; to protect the identities of the individuals, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

C

We have considered your request and regret that we cannot answer your questions on the basis that it exceeds the cost limit provisions set down by Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 (the “Law”).

Under Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, a scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if the cost of doing so exceeds 12.5 hours. It is estimated that collecting the information requested falls outside this cost time limit and the request is refused.

Exemptions and/or refusals applied to this request:

Article 25 - Personal information  

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if:

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the  Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.