Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas
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Lilith __, in reply to
Doffing said hat…
You must be getting hat-hair, Christopher! ;-)
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Thanks for elucidating!
But can councils set a pay policy for non-CEO staff, such as a wage freeze or floor?(as shareholders in a private company have the ability to).
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Christopher Dempsey, in reply to
But can councils set a pay policy for non-CEO staff, such as a wage freeze or floor?(as shareholders in a private company have the ability to).
Popping elected rep hat on...
No worries!
In answer to your question, No, they can't. Non-CEO staff are employed by the CEO, and it is the CEO (along with senior management) that sets the pay policy for non-CEO staff.
Council (being a body of elected members) can only set the conditions and pay for the single employee it has - the CEO.
Council could theoretically make it a part of a CEO's performance conditions that Non-CEO staff pay be increased annually by 14%. The CEO could do such a thing, but equally is entitled to argue that such performance standard is unworkable. In reality, Council's very rarely interfere in non-CEO staffing arrangement and conditions.
Doffing said hat...
You must be getting hat-hair, Christopher! ;-)
I must engage in such exercise to clearly indicate that the comments made while wearing my elected rep hat are clearly different from my own personal comments, and that generally, my comments made while wearing such hat relates to my function as an elected representative, at your service. :)
If I do not distinguish between personal and public persona's then I run the risk of the less astute among us (there are some) conflating the two and thinking that World War Three has been launched, or something similar.
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Christopher Dempsey, in reply to
the risk of the less astute among us (there are some)
Apologies - I did not mean to cast aspirations upon you all. I was recalling the time when an interloper from a strange political party criticised my comments. He claimed that he was a regular PAS person. Though it must be said I haven't seen him around these parts lately.
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Sacha, in reply to
a regular PAS person
there are way more of us who don't post than who do
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Thanks Christopher for explaining the law.
I actually think it's a fairly undemocratic system (not up to City of London standards of feudalism, though). It should be up to a community (either by referendum or through elected reps) to decide how it wants to organise governance. The current system smacks of giving people the impression they have democratic control without actually trusting them to change things.
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I've just read that the CCC won't be honouring a promise to pay for the burial of the earthquake victims. How completely shitty and petty.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Thanks for the heads up Tamsin6. The link seems to have moved in that inimitable Fairfax fashion, so once again, here. Tony Marryatt’s salary increase would appear to be sufficient to purchase around 200 burial plots.
Elsewhere the Council has been attempting to offset their largesse by gouging Canterbury University over discounts for staff study. As the University’s Vice-Chancellor has enjoyed a similar level of remuneration hiking to Marryatt, with no link to how he actually benefits that institution, perhaps they could settle the issue with a jelly-wrestling bout.
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Sacha, in reply to
Outrageous. What are they using the publicly-donated Mayoral Fund for again?
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Sacha, in reply to
Ah, to pay the construction costs. No doubt at full market rates.
The Christchurch Earthquake Mayoral Relief Fund has given $170,000 to help pay for the construction of the interment site at the cemetery.
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About $200m in donations to various funds, including the Mayoral one.
The mayoral fund has received more than $7m and has spent $3.6m on "repairing or rebuilding damaged community buildings or structures".
He tangata, etc.
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merc,
"It would have been very easy to export those jobs out of Christchurch, if not the country." http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/6243660/Leases-defy-Christchurch-CBD-plan-Labour-says
Go Gerry!
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
More evidence that the CCCouncil’s Share An Idea was never anything more than expensive window-dressing, carried out in bad faith. Bob Parker has had the gall to cite Tony Marryatt’s supposed oversight of that farce as justification for his pay hike.
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Sacha, in reply to
the Council has been attempting to offset their largesse
The cost of providing those plots free as promised seems to be about the same as a certain recent CEO payrise..
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Sacha, in reply to
To be fair, you saw what happened when the Council tried to contain suburban sprawl as the developers' preferred response to re-housing red-zoned residents - Brownlee simply overrode their district plan with a stroke of the pen.
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Roger Lacey, in reply to
About $200m in donations to various funds, including the Mayoral one.
The mayoral fund has received more than $7m and has spent $3.6m on “repairing or rebuilding damaged community buildings or structures”.
Funny that the Hagley Golf Club was one of the first beneficiaries. I wonder who rubber stamped that one? http://www.ccc.govt.nz/homeliving/civildefence/chchearthquake/MayoralReliefFund.aspx
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Sacha, in reply to
A clear head is worth any amount of someone else's money.
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Hebe, in reply to
"It would have been very easy to export those jobs out of Christchurch, if not the country."
A blueprint for National's second term?
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merc, in reply to
A blueprint for National's second term?
For me, antipathy reached.
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Hebe, in reply to
For me, antipathy reached
Sorry, don't understand your meaning.
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merc, in reply to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipathy mainly due to these sort of backflips, http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/6243654/Parker-extremely-sorry-for-burial-offer-mistake
My faith in our Govt. has finally reached it's nadir. As for National's second term, well, there have been so many vested interests exposed by their first term I suspect they are now too big to fail. -
Hebe, in reply to
I get you. I'm more heading to resigned annoyance.
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merc, in reply to
Yes. For me the care for the dead is paramount. Nothing I have seen shows me that this Govt. isn't merely unfeeling, they are a savage menace.
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Hebe, in reply to
They look like ice-cold technicians to me.
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merc, in reply to
;-)
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