North Lanarkshire Update



I came across this post from the blog site archive which I had forgotten all about, but it shines a light on the way in which senior officials in North Lanarkshire Council were treated compared to all the 'foot soldiers' fighting for equal pay.

Three Steps to Heaven (28/03/12)




 A kind reader has sent me some information - which explains how big bonuses were handed out to senior officials in North Lanarkshire Council.

Apparently the process involved three simple steps - three steps to (financial) heaven if you like - which went as follows. 

Step 1
The council's chief executive Gavin Whitefield - is interviewed by the Labour leader of the council (Councillor Jim McCabe) plus two other senior councillors and is rewarded with a bonus of £12,050 - or around 9% of his £136,848 annual salary.

Step 2
The council's chief executive - Gavin Whitefield - then interviews the next tier of senior managers whose names are listed below and - surprise, surprise - they all get similar bonus payments, top ups of around 9% - in addition to their already high salaries. 

Iris Wylie
John Ellerby
John O'Hagan
Paul Jukes
Alistair Crichton
Mary Castles
Christine Pollock

Step 3
The second tier of senior managers (whose names are listed above) - goes on to interview the third tier of senior managers (whose names are listed below) - and what do you think happens? Yes, you guessed it - they all achieve similar outcomes to their bosses. 

Maureen McConachie
Stephen Penman
John Flaeming
Campbell Crawford
Margaret Murray
Robert Nisbet
Patrick Kelly
Graham Patrick
Graham MacKay
Crawford Morgan
Kenneth Wilson
Irene McKelvey
Brain Cook
Paul Hughes
Duncan MacKay
Monica Patterson
Ronald Paul
Mary Fegan
Jane Liddell
Elizabeth McMurrich
Murdo McIver

Now I have to say this is a truly remarkable, possibly unique, scheme.

One where 'all shall have prizes' as the saying goes - and they all seem to be achieving close to maximum performance, would you believe.

I don't know what qualifications the Labour leader of the council, Jim McCabe, has to carry out such an assessment by the way, but the results are amazingly consistent all the way down the line.

I suppose you could call this the 'trickle down' theory of performance related pay, except that it appears to apply only to the council's most senior managers, which is rather strange.

I would dearly love to see the objective criteria against which all these senior managers were awarded their big bonuses, so if anyone has the information, please pass it on.

If not maybe someone fancies submitting an FOI request to North Lanarkshire's chief executive, Gavin Whitefield.

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