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Something seriously wrong with recruitment

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30/12/2011 1:56 pm

Derren Cooper

Derren Cooper

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It's been pretty obvious from my contact with various councils and social landlords that when positions have become vacant they are not being replaced, as one measure of saving money, and that job cuts are affecting a lot of lower paid staff proportionally more than managers.

Then, today, I decided to skim through the job adverts on IH, which I haven't done for months, maybe a couple of years, and how disappointing to see that as much as half, if not more in some areas, of jobs advertised, are for managers and senior positions (I don't remember it being like this in the past).  It seems that councils and many social landlords can't run without their managers, but many frontline staff are seen as unnecessary.

There's obviously somethign wrong with the way staff are being "consulted" over the cuts, because the lower paid workers are realy losing out.

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Bill Pearson

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Location: Bacup East Lancashire
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03/01/2012 11:40 am

This has been going on for some time in our so called local housing association. Staff have left or taken redunancy to be replaced by staff from from elsewhere in the group so the promise made to the tenants of a local housing association run by local people has been broken.

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03/01/2012 1:10 pm

In some cases, departments could have been merged and several managers laid off, and the positions being advertised are for a single manager to oversee a wider area - so the picture may not be as simple as you make out.

Example consultation question:

Who do you think should be made redundant?

a) you

b) someone else

Please tick your preferred option.  

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