Oakham Town Council Payments January 2015
The Town Clerk has returned to work this year, working a few hours a week that suit him.
At the beginning of the year I wrote to the Chairman of the Council and asked how much
longer is the tax payer expected to pay for the absent clerk. A clerk who takes months
of on full pay whenever he is asked to do something he does not like or when he does or
lets other do things wrong like last years co-option of Vince Howard. Never once has the council
insisted the correct payment method statutory sick pay.
Mrs Woodcock the Mayor should know better as a person who works in NHS management.
Second thoughts perhaps not, looking at the mess the NHS is in.
Would she tolerate this poor performance from her staff or perhaps she does?
now that she tells us she can spend most of her time working from home.
Making it convenient for her to arrange for meetings like the planning and sub committee to be held at 2pm this Tuesday. It must me great to have a highly paid jobs funded by the tax payers when you can work when you feel like it?
And of course if your like the Clerk and his friendly Councillors past and present you
can attack those on JSA call them spongers and worse even, he is paid a sum
equivalent to nearly a years JSA in one month for little or no work.
When the clerk did turn up to work one day in January, he answered the phone voice
slurred. He could not answer my question telling me he had not been to work for
some time and knew nothing?
Last week I saw him staggering into work red faced and head down.
Whilst I was chatting to someone outside the office, person arrived with a letter he did not answer the door and they put the letter in the post box on the outside wall. They departed and he immediately
opened the door and retrieved the letter from the box.
I have no sympathy for the clerk, he has over the years supported and condoned vile, crude and homophobic conduct dished out by Councillors past and present. Of course that is why they
won't sack him and the tax payer suffers the burden of his large wage bill.
Then there is the poor assistant clerk who has to carry out most of his duties and now he
has returned part-time on full pay she also has to nurse him. It a disgrace.
Then to add insult he is asking the tax payer this week for an additional £500 so he can
go on a weekend Jolly for Clerks because he has not been on one for a while if he is not fit for full time work then he is not fit for a jolly, but then I doubt if he would have trouble staggering to the bar.
The Town Clerk has returned to work this year, working a few hours a week that suit him.
At the beginning of the year I wrote to the Chairman of the Council and asked how much
longer is the tax payer expected to pay for the absent clerk. A clerk who takes months
of on full pay whenever he is asked to do something he does not like or when he does or
lets other do things wrong like last years co-option of Vince Howard. Never once has the council
insisted the correct payment method statutory sick pay.
Mrs Woodcock the Mayor should know better as a person who works in NHS management.
Second thoughts perhaps not, looking at the mess the NHS is in.
Would she tolerate this poor performance from her staff or perhaps she does?
now that she tells us she can spend most of her time working from home.
Making it convenient for her to arrange for meetings like the planning and sub committee to be held at 2pm this Tuesday. It must me great to have a highly paid jobs funded by the tax payers when you can work when you feel like it?
And of course if your like the Clerk and his friendly Councillors past and present you
can attack those on JSA call them spongers and worse even, he is paid a sum
equivalent to nearly a years JSA in one month for little or no work.
When the clerk did turn up to work one day in January, he answered the phone voice
slurred. He could not answer my question telling me he had not been to work for
some time and knew nothing?
Last week I saw him staggering into work red faced and head down.
Whilst I was chatting to someone outside the office, person arrived with a letter he did not answer the door and they put the letter in the post box on the outside wall. They departed and he immediately
opened the door and retrieved the letter from the box.
I have no sympathy for the clerk, he has over the years supported and condoned vile, crude and homophobic conduct dished out by Councillors past and present. Of course that is why they
won't sack him and the tax payer suffers the burden of his large wage bill.
Then there is the poor assistant clerk who has to carry out most of his duties and now he
has returned part-time on full pay she also has to nurse him. It a disgrace.
Then to add insult he is asking the tax payer this week for an additional £500 so he can
go on a weekend Jolly for Clerks because he has not been on one for a while if he is not fit for full time work then he is not fit for a jolly, but then I doubt if he would have trouble staggering to the bar.
