EDITOR - It's not often I'd say this but, on this occasion, I do feel for ELDC staff who face pay cuts.
The real problem is that most of us work for small private companies and do not earn such good salaries in the first place. We certainly do not look forward to generous, index-linked pensions and big lump sum payments when we retire, which local gove
rnment staff with some years of service do.
And, if jobs are cut - as is happening throughout the area - people very often get a poor pay-out compared with council staff, whose redundancy payments are enhanced.
Worse still, we've all read about people like council chief executives and other senior officials in local government who do not do a brilliant job or who make mistakes and are asked to leave - with a generous golden handshake of £200,000 or thereabouts (perhaps I even underestimate).
Therefore, our sympathies are naturally difficult to conjure up over any report of council staff having to be paid off, or having a pay cut.
But this time I feel sorry for the staff at ELDC whose salaries are being reduced. As always, the decisions to overspend or waste money are made at the top (by councillors and officers) and it's the people lower down the list who suffer.
But 'twas ever thus.
JES
Horncastle
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