FOI and NLC (05/01/15)
Here's my latest FoI request to North Lanarkshire Council which will shine a light on how NLC chief officials managed to earn a whopping £2 million in good performance bonuses between 2002/03 and 2013/14, i.e the exact same period during which the Council was making a dog's dinner of equal pay.
Latterly, the rest of the North Lanarkshire workforce has been operating under a policy of public sector pay restraint, yet over the past five years NLC's chief officers have received performance bonuses worth £846,632.
The record year being 2013/14 when the top brass received £191,932 at the same time as the Council's case was falling apart at the ongoing Employment Tribunal where North Lanarkshire has been forced to concede major problems and 'mistakes' with its local pay arrangements.
The record year being 2013/14 when the top brass received £191,932 at the same time as the Council's case was falling apart at the ongoing Employment Tribunal where North Lanarkshire has been forced to concede major problems and 'mistakes' with its local pay arrangements.
Now quite how that merits a 'good performance' bonus is beyond me.
18 December 2014
Chief Executive
North Lanarkshire Council
Dear Mr Whitefield
FOISA Request
I would like to make the following request under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002.
1 Please confirm the salary paid to the Council's chief executive each year between 2004/05 and 2013/14?
2 Please confirm the amount of any 'performance payments' also paid to the Council's chief executive each year between 2004/05 and 2013/14?
3 Please confirm the number of chief officials (including the Council's chief executive) whose performance was assessed under the Council's Performance Management Scheme (PMS) each year between 2002/03 and 20013/14?
4 Please confirm the assessed level of performance of the Council's chief executive each year between 2002/03 and 2013/14, as per the classification shown below?
Review of Objectives
Full achievementGood progress and substantial achievementLimited progress and limited achievementNo progress and no achievement
5 Please confirm the assessed level of performance of the remaining chief officials each year between 2002/03 and 2013/14, as per the PMS classification shown below? In other words how many chief officials were assessed in each of these four categories between the years 2002/03 to 2013/14?
Review of Objectives
Full achievementGood progress and substantial achievementLimited progress and limited achievementNo progress and no achievement
I look forward to your reply and would be grateful if you could respond to me by e-mail to: markirvine@compuserve.com
Kind regards
Mark Irvine
