Job protection .

[Fritz]

Why is FW so concerned about protecting jobs for locals in the finance sector?

I saw no effort made to protect the jobs of local construction workers when cheap labour was brought in by developers.

In my opinion, the finance sector employees will simply have to ,"Cut their cloth,(salaries), to suit", the current market conditions. Same as construction workers have been doing for decades.

[danrok]

I'd be interested to know how he proposes to protect jobs.  If the employer doesn't have the cash to pay the wages bill, then people will be out of a job.  There's no avoiding that.

[moot]

He is talking out his debt again. Or perhaps did he mean his pals in the States who could be unemployed as from next week ?

[Malachi]

My understanding of the JEP front page/article was that FW was merely saying that his successor and all of the other ministers are going to have to do all they can to try and stop widespread job losses (not just in finance).

As danrok said, there isn't anything that he or anyone else can do to protect jobs... so it's just a bit of spin/PR to stop people from thinking that FW & co. haven't been reading any newspapers or watching or listening to any off-island news sources for the last few months.

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Fritzy your are on the button again, there is no protection for small businesses - but Banks?? Oh yes!

[Uni]

 F. Walker Protecting Jobs is a Joke.   The best going away, including Xmas Present he could give this island. Would be to make redundant,civil servants as many as he can take with him as soon as he leaves, As many as possible of the overpaid administerial staff.By employing a genuine time and motion study of all  States Departments. (The continual pages of J.E.P. of never ending of States jobs always being made avaiable), Seeing its not what we need right now, in what could happen in a rocky financial climate. Look at the Savings we could make, in the Interest of the Island. Even having only half the administration of civil servants. We must have one of the highest, for such a small island.Also by how much would you say,? could cut the States budget ::)I don't surpose there's a Hells chance of it happening, Still, I CAN DREAM CAN't I.

[danrok]

I seem to recall that a bunch of people were made redundant at the JEP when Frank Walker was supreme overlord there!

If he couldn't manage to keep people in work, at a monopoly company he had complete control over, what hope is there of him protecting anyone's job?

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

While on the subject of going away presents :
What leaving present you think would be appropiate to give Chief Min Walker on behalf of the Jersey people ? Suggestions please

That's really easy, a five year diary, pocket calculater and a fiver with a note "to stop you spending money like there's no tomorrow"

[soon]

A one way ticket on the morning ferry.

[Razzard]

Some new glasses. Those tinted things he's got make him like an honorary cop with a conviction for something unsavoury.

In fact even better I'd organise a Trinny and Susanna makeover for him on prime time BBC1. In fact you could also have a mini series of ex-political leaders seeking to soften their post political images. Blair, Mugabe and Walker would be an amusing entree.

[The Rev Peter Sarkey]

Rather see him Gok'd

[moot]

While on the subject of going away presents :
What leaving present you think would be appropiate to give Chief Min Walker on behalf of the Jersey people ? Suggestions please

I have started a new topic for this under SENATORS / FRANK WALKER

[Lieve]

I would rather give him a new hat. I heard someone tell the story of how he jumped on his hat and stamped his feet in a rage when the employees at the JEP (years ago) went on strike. FW apparently lost it and made a scene which I would have LOVED to witness. The hat was taken to hospital and flown to Southampton ... oops, no, that was another story !