Voluntary Redundancy and using suppliers
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From: Charles Finley
Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
Please provide information on whether you have used contractors, consultants or other providers of services to fill gaps you have from accepting voluntary redundancy in the last six months. I am interested in both short term filling of gaps and long term filling of skill gaps and why redundancy would be used and then services being bought in.
With this, please detail
- The business unit and job area being filled.
- The case / argument for using a supplier to fill a gap where redundancy was accepted.
- The cost of this supplier providing this resource (or additional service).
- The approval endorsing this decision, given redundancy was given.
- If possible, the total cost of providing this service above the standard cost (such as the cost of payout plus the increase in cost through using a consultant).
For completeness, I am interested and think this is in the public interest as voluntary redundancy would imply that services are no longer needed, but then if money is being used to give work to consultants then I am interested in understanding how this is best use of taxpayer funds.
Please note I have asked various agencies who have announced the use of voluntary redundancies this question.
Yours faithfully,
Charles Finley
From: Ministerial Services
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Ref: 2324-2537
Dear Charles Finley,
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 15 May 2024 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:
‘Please provide information on whether you have used contractors,
consultants or other providers of services to fill gaps you have from
accepting voluntary redundancy in the last six months. I am interested in
both short term filling of gaps and long term filling of skill gaps and
why redundancy would be used and then services being bought in.
With this, please detail
- The business unit and job area being filled.
- The case / argument for using a supplier to fill a gap where
redundancy was accepted.
- The cost of this supplier providing this resource (or
additional service).
- The approval endorsing this decision, given redundancy was
given.
- If possible, the total cost of providing this service above
the standard cost (such as the cost of payout plus the increase in cost
through using a consultant).
For completeness, I am interested and think this is in the public interest
as voluntary redundancy would imply that services are no longer needed,
but then if money is being used to give work to consultants then I am
interested in understanding how this is best use of taxpayer funds.
Please note I have asked various agencies who have announced the use of
voluntary redundancies this question.’
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Nâku noa, nâ
Ministerial Services Business Advisory
Communications, Design & Ministerial Services
Hîkina Whakatutuki | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | P O Box 1473 Wellington 6140
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