Anyone stuck in Saturday’s Broadway jam may be interested in how jammy the man whose name goes on all Bexley council’s traffic related notices is. I mean Mike Frizoni, the Deputy Director of Public Realm Management. He is the only senior Bexley council employee who gets a bonus.
You might wonder why Frizoni is the one man to get a bonus. Is it for having his
name stuck on many of the borough’s lamp posts perhaps?
The official answer suggests that no one else is worth a bonus.
Market premia are applied to posts to retain or recruit suitably skilled and
experienced staff to key roles.
Consideration of market premia is on case by case basis taking into account a
range of factors which might in some cases include comparative pay of
neighbouring boroughs or other authorities, the criticality of a role at a
particular time, the need to retain an employee with a particular skill set, the
scarceness in the market of candidates with the appropriate skill set or the
requirement to ensure a combination of the right skills in a service. The market
premium paid to Mr. Frizoni was agreed on the basis of those factors.
It has not been considered that market premia for other senior staff are required.
Friend’s in high places? The rest of the over-paid gang must
look on enviously and neighbouring boroughs can relax, safe in the knowledge that Frizoni
might not be too anxious to apply his dubious ‘skill sets’ to wrecking their roads too.