LGOIMA Request Details: LG1917

Dear Jordan & Mat

In response to your questions:

Will your Council be:

Cancelling all scheduled salary increases for all but frontline workers until the economy has recovered (i.e. when quarterly GDP has returned in real terms to the that of Q4-2019); and

No – Council is considering a proposal for a wage and salary freeze for all staff for 12 months

Reducing your salary by 20 percent for the next 12 months;

No – Council does not have the power to unilaterally reduce my salary.  Any change must be voluntary.  I would also note that Public Sector CE's have not done this (6 vs 12 months).

Reducing the Mayor/Chair and Councillors' salaries by the same;

No – as I'm sure you are aware, their salaries are set by the remuneration authority and gazetted in Parliament and we cannot change them. 

Asking second-level managers (staff who report directly to you) to do the same.

No – for reasons noted above

Kind Regards

Richard

P.S. I'm sure you appreciate the irony that the Taxpayers Union is receiving a Government wage subsidy, while Councils are ineligible.