States of Jersey employees made redundant and re employed on a contract by the same department (FOI)

​​​​Request

How many States employees have been made redundant and then been re-employed on a contract by the same department in the past ten years (broken down into years up to 2014)? Please list from which department the employee(s) were made redundant from, the salary the employee(s) were on when made redundant and the total value and length of the subsequent contract.

Response

The response can only address agreements from 2009 onwards because it would take more than 12.5 hours to find information from earlier years.

[A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that it would exceed 12.5 hours to do so. ]

Furthermore, the data has been presented in a way that will not identify employees (former or current) as this information is personal information and so is exempt under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information Jersey) Law 2011 (the “FOI Law”), which refers to personal information. The information cannot be disclosed because its disclosure to a member of the public would contravene one or more of the data protection principles, which are set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005. As a public authority, the States of Jersey must observe all of the data protection principles when processing personal data. The exemption from the duty to disclose personal data, where to do so would breach a data protection principle, is an absolute exemption, therefore the public interest test in Part 2 of the FOI Law does not apply.

However, we are able to provide you with the following information:

• since 2009 no employees who were made compulsorily redundant have been re-employed by any States of Jersey department.
• of those who took voluntary redundancy, six people have been rehired by the same department on a fixed term contract or zero hours (i.e. supply teacher) basis. Of the six, there were four at Education, Sport and Culture, one at the Ports of Jersey and one at the Chief Minister’s Department.

Exemptions

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.