Number of workers joining and leaving the council 2006 to present day

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Dear Gedling Borough Council,

** Request for Information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. **

Please supply the numbers of people who have joined the council workforce from 2006 (inclusive) to the present day, and the numbers who have left the workforce for the same time period.

Please break these figures down by year. Please indicate whether you are using calendar or financial years. For each year, please supply a running total of the number of people employed by the council.

Additionally, I would like to see the numbers of people leaving the authority broken down into the different methods of leaving, i.e. the number of people who resigned; who were made redundant; who retired; who were dismissed; and any other categories that seem reasonable to include.

For the categories of those made redundant or retired, please include a total cost to the authority for these retirements and redundancies, i.e. monies paid to these workers in redundancy payments, or any lump sum monies paid to retiring workers.

Please also subdivide the numbers joining/leaving on the basis of their contract: i.e. please list those on temporary contracts separately to those on permanent contracts.

The figures should ideally include any temporary workers used by the authority but employed via a third-party temp agency, but need not include higher-paid consultants.

Please supply the data in Excel 97 format.

Please note that this is a public FOI request via the
WhatDoTheyKnow website.

Yours faithfully,

S Wilson (Mr)
http://ncc.fairpay.org.uk

Helen Barrington, Gedling Borough Council

Thank you for your email dated 14 February 2010 and received by the Council on 15 February 2010 requesting information about the number of workers joining and leaving the Council since 2006.

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Helen Barrington | Senior Solicitor | Legal Section | Democratic and Community Services | Gedling Borough Council, Civic Centre, Arnot Hill Park, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 6LU I Tel: [0115] 9013896 I Fax: [0115] 9013920 I www.gedling.gov.uk

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Rebecca Dearlove, Gedling Borough Council

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Hello

With regards to your Freedom of Information request, please find details
attached.

Regards

Rebecca Dearlove

Personnel Assistant

Gedling Borough Council

0115 9013935

<<FOI 1101 March 10 letter.doc>> <<FOI- 1101 Summary of starters and
leavers April 06- Feb 10.xls>>

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Dear Rebecca Dearlove,

Thank you very much for that detailed response.

Could I clarify one issue, please? My understanding is that the phrase 'TUPE transfer', listed in the 08/09 figures, refer to a transfer of council workers to the private sector (with their pay and condition protected), is that correct?

Is there any further information you can provide on this? For example, was there a particular service area that this affected, or were the workers drawn from various departments?

Thanks,

S Wilson