According to Taxpayers Alliance Robyn Fairman, the deputy chief executive was paid close to £500,000 in redundancy to go away.
This happened under the watch of Cllr Elizabeth Campbell. Campbell has never run a business in her life so this sort of profligate wasting of our money is unsurprising.
The usual mantra is that we have to pay these people vast sums of money to stop them from being hired by the private sector.
This is a blatant lie.
The only senior officers lured into the private sector are planners whose inside knowledge is helpful to developers.
No private sector company would have any use for these people.
It is astonishing that Campbell has not explained to residents why so much money was spent on Fairman.
The Council is always spewing out nonsense PR yet hides away stories of waste like this. Most senior officers are still working from home!
ReplyDelete£500k!! That would have paid for two sets of proper cladding for Grenfell.
Deletedizzy might just as well employ her neighbour, Prince Andrew, to add some ballast to Hornton Street
DeleteApply to join the dizzy Campbell gravy train in Hornton Street. Tory largess for friends and family.
DeleteAnother failure of Leadership by Cllr Campbell. She is in the wrong job. Conservative Councillors have humongous evidence that it is time to replace dizzy. This latest travesty shows that she is not engaged with the Hornton Street organisation, does not understand management, and does not know how to "run the ship"
ReplyDeleteBad analogy Observer. dizzy is hitched to the head of the Royal Yacht Squadron - there is a "ship runner" in the family
DeleteIt is a scandal if Town Hall Officers are still working from home. What is it with these people? Full pay skivvies. Another DVLA
ReplyDeleteNo Leadership, no management, no discipline
I would not pay Fairman £500k. She looks more like a £100/week tax clerk
ReplyDeleteMore evidence of Tory decay in RBKC
ReplyDeleteDid dizzy receive Common Purpose training?
ReplyDeleteQuirk is a Common Purpose man
DeleteIt is insolent of Cllr Campbell and Mr Quirk to pay off this officer with no explanation to residents.
ReplyDeleteIt shows an arrogant disregard for transparency. I suppose we will not be told what Quirk will disappear with. Local government is now a lucrative business for crafty people!
Mr Downes makes a good point. The whole Quirk operation in Hornton Street has developed into a massive polling exercise about every new idea that the bored Officers and Councillors dream up. Its a complete failure of Public Administration.
DeleteBut the logic is that Hornton Street should also have carried out a staff appraisal by Grenfell residents (360 feedback) to gauge the performance of Deputy Director Fairman. And this should have formed the basis for her stratospheric pay off.
Dream on baby. Fairman was a mate of Quirk from his old employer at Socialist Lewisham. "You scratch my back and I scratch yours" is the personnel practice at work here.
DeleteResidents have absolutely nothing to do with performance appraisal
£250k saved on Grenfell cladding.
Delete80 dead.
£500k golden goodbye to Director of Grenfell Relations
dizzy! Are you awake?
DeleteCan't believe that this gormless lady walked out the door with £500k
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