Request details
Date received:
23/05/2011
Request code:
FoI/000958
Request received from:
Private Individual
Request description:
Staff Gardening leave
Question
1. Gardening leave
How many employees has your organisation placed on gardening leave in each of the last four financial years for which figures are available?
In each individual case, please provide the length of the gardening leave in days. For each of the last four financial years (where relevant), please provide the total cost in salary paid out to such individuals (to avoid my being able to identify the individual, please just give the total cost of these salary payments incurred by your organisation). If the gardening leave is currently occuring, please provide the total number of days of leave as at 31 April 2011.
2. Staff suspended with pay
How many employees has your organisation suspended in each of the last four financial years for which figures are available? (By 'suspended', I mean any employee who has been stopped from undertaking their usual duties as a consequence of disciplinary action being taken against them, or an investigation ongoing.)
Of these suspended employees, how many individuals were suspended on pay. By 'on pay' I mean any individual who continued to receive a salary from your institution (even if the salary was reduced).
In each case, please provide the length of the suspension in days. For each of the last four financial years (where relevant), please provide the total cost in salary paid out to such individuals (to avoid my being able to identify the individual, please just give the total cost of these salary payments incurred by your organisation). If the suspension is currently occuring, please provide the total number of days of suspension as at 31 April 2011.
3. Staff on long-term sickness
How many of your organisation's employees have been on long-term sickness absence in each of the last four financial years for which figures are available? (By 'long term sickness absence', I mean absence from work of longer than four consecutive weeks).
How many incidences of long-term sickness absence have occured in your organisation in each of the last four financial years for which figures are available? (I.e. this is the same question as the previous one, but would include individuals who have had more than one period of longterm absence in a year).
In each case, please provide the total length of the absence in days. For each of the last four financial years (where relevant), please provide the total cost in salary paid out to such individuals (to avoid my being able to identify the individual, please just give the total cost of these salary payments incurred by your organisation). If the absence is currently occuring, please provide the total number of days of absence as at 31 April 2011.
Response
Q1. This information is not held on our systems; however we have contacted our Human Resources department, who have advised us that to their knowledge this has never happened.
Q2.
|
|
Suspensions
|
No Pay
|
With Pay
|
Cost
|
|
10-11
|
20
|
3
|
17
|
£183,392.96
|
|
09-10
|
13
|
5
|
8
|
£204,115.86
|
|
08-09
|
8
|
5
|
3
|
£9,073.96
|
|
07-08
|
11
|
10
|
1
|
£48,312.42
|
|
10-11
|
|
|
Assignment Status
|
Days suspended
|
|
Suspended No Pay
|
73
|
|
5
|
|
67
|
|
Suspended With Pay
|
67
|
|
27
|
|
42
|
|
4
|
|
60
|
|
60
|
|
132
|
|
132
|
|
203
|
|
33
|
|
117
|
|
26
|
|
174
|
|
123
|
|
67
|
|
41
|
|
7
|
|
09-10
|
|
|
Assignment Status
|
Days suspended
|
|
Suspended No Pay
|
28
|
|
27
|
|
5
|
|
28
|
|
122
|
|
Suspended With Pay
|
201
|
|
42
|
|
364
|
|
49
|
|
84
|
|
9
|
|
163
|
|
303
|
|
08-09
|
|
|
Assignment Status
|
Days suspended
|
|
Suspended No Pay
|
15
|
|
6
|
|
32
|
|
14
|
|
0
|
|
Suspended With Pay
|
11
|
|
59
|
|
59
|
|
07-08
|
|
|
Assignment Status
|
Days suspended
|
|
Suspended No Pay
|
2
|
|
20
|
|
79
|
|
1
|
|
15
|
|
7
|
|
2
|
|
0
|
|
2
|
|
29
|
|
Suspended With Pay
|
221
|
Q3.
|
Year
|
Staff
|
Episodes
|
Cost
|
|
07-08
|
558
|
670
|
£2,426,183.91
|
|
08-09
|
476
|
575
|
£2,182,694.33
|
|
09-10
|
514
|
638
|
£2,665,985.66
|
|
10-11
|
474
|
611
|
£2,646,120.72
|