Concealing Golden Handshakes

Labour campigned in 1999 on ending golden handshakes in the state sector. This was a fundamentally dishonest campaign as they knew full well that you can’t just end them unless you remove all employment rights for all state employees. Or want to end up paying many times more in the Employment Court.

So since then they have had to eat their own hypocrisy as example after example of golden handshakes under Labour have been revealed. It teaches them right for ever making such a stupid dishonest promise.

Now how-ever some state agencies, knowing that the wrath of Helengrad hits them if they agree to a golden handshake, have come up with a new way to do it. You enter into a new contract for some consulting job after you make someone redundant or sack them. That way it is not officially a golden handshake, but a contract for writing some report.

Luckily the Auditor-General and the Commerce Select Committee have exposed the practice which should kill it off.