This afternoon.
Via Fergal Bowers at RTE News:
The Health Service Executive has responded to reports of complaints and upset among some of its Covid-19 contact tracing staff, over a decision to defer plans for 100 promotional posts and also a change to working hours.
In correspondence seen by RTÉ News, the Contact Management Programme (CMP) told staff on 13 July, that due to the rapid rise in Covid-19 cases, and future modelling for cases, it wanted to upgrade contact tracers, on a temporary basis.
….However, on 12 August, by email, staff were told it had been decided not to proceed with the upgrade posts at the present time and it thanked staff for their expressions of interest for the roles.
Some contact tracing staff said there was “huge upset” with what had transpired as some people had put in extra work to get the posts.
Anyone?
Upset among contract tracing staff as HSE defers promotional post plans (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Thousands of people told to self-isolate unnecessarily because of error with NHS Covid apphttps://t.co/MiJlKKgEXI pic.twitter.com/8dts1eOb8F
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) August 18, 2021
Um.
the €€€€ numbers are bonkers
beer mat calcs the HSE is spending €50,000,000 Per annum on contact tracer salaries (not including office space, IT, phones, computers)
€50 brick just for wages on a POINTLESS exercise
That’s not correct. There are about 1000 staff and most would be clerical officer level which starts at €24,586
The promotions which aren’t happening come with a top end salary of “over 47,000” according to the article. That means they’d be executive officer level which starts at €30,884.
Your calculation, which you know is wrong, is based on an average salary of €50k which is higher that the highest possible salary.
The only way they’d be on the highest salary would be if they’d already been working in the public sector for at least 15 years and were in one of the more senior roles. Contact tracing roles have only existed for 18months and many will not have been working in the public sector longer than that.
A more realistic average salary is likely to be about €28-30k and no, it is not pointless.
This is the next big pile of crap. Look at the UK and their ‘Pingmagedon’ test and trace fiasco. Clearly some genius wants to copy that pooshow
Jobs for life stuff
These are two different apps in two different jurisdictions created by different companies using different mythologies, software and algorithms. Poo-pooing by association.
They are just 2 similar news stories – one is not directly reflective of the other, nor was there a remark as such?
Or did I miss something
Promotion? To what? 100 posts available?
Reward for extra work? = Overtime surely?
It is in the article. Different kinds of work.
The HSE “wanted to upgrade contact tracers, on a temporary basis, from Call 2 roles to Call 1 roles.”
“Call 2 roles involve collecting information about close contacts, while Call 1 roles involve informing people they had tested positive for Covid-19 and giving information on how they can protect themselves and others.”
Thats a ‘promotion’? The sky’s the limit then.
Check out the salaries for Toll Booth personnel. Where and when are these jobs advertised?