Auckland civil servants advised on jobs this week
Auckland civil servants advised on jobs this week
Auckland local government staff will this week receive letters advising whether or not they continue to be involved in a change process as part of the transition to the new Auckland Council.
The employees will receive one of three letters from the Auckland Transition Agency (ATA), which has been established under legislation to manage the transition of eight existing local authorities into the new Council.
Laila Harre is overseeing the process on behalf of the ATA. She says the letters give surety to over 3500 staff who will be told they transfer to the new Council or one of its Council-Controlled Organisations from November 1, 2010.
Other staff remain in the “change process”.
“Remaining in the change process simply means that greater certainty for those people depends on the outcome of detailed organisational design work or decisions on future locations,” she says.
In summary, the letters state:
Letter 1: There will be no change or only
minor change(s) to the person’s role or their work
location. Staff in this situation and will be told they
simply transfer to the new Auckland Council or one of its
Council-Controlled Organisations.
The vast majority of
these staff are in customer-facing, operational, areas such
as parks, libraries, and swimming pools or provide
regulatory services such as building and resource
consents.
Letter 2 – This advises staff they
remain in a “change process”. This does not indicate
that the position will necessarily be disestablished, but
that there are further details yet to be worked through,
such as the exact nature of the role and/or its physical
location. Around 3800 staff are in this category.
Once
the ATA has completed designing the structure of each of
these work areas and the overall location plan has been
finalised, more information will be available to this group
about the change process in their work area.
Letter 3- Also advises that the
employee remains in a “change process” and that some or
all of the person’s accountabilities are incorporated into
a new role in the Auckland Council organisational structure.
This group (around 200) of staff are generally senior
managers. People in this category will have the opportunity
to apply for roles in the future.
The remainder of staff are on fixed term agreements.
ENDS