What is happening at bent Labour's "expert" Sandwell Human Resources [sic] Department at the moment?
Regular readers will know from previous posts that pathetic groveller Darren Carter was suspended for his grotesque behaviour is the absurd suspensions of the cabinet secretariat (blogs passim and see legal notice below.) He was the statutory s.151 Finance Officer at SMBC and one of the four Directors underneath Jan Britton, the now-disgraced former Chief Executive.
Ex-Leader (yes, they are dropping like flies) Cllr Yvonne Davies managed to get into Oldbury Council House (OCH) from her luxurious Herefordshire home to say:
"I would also like to pay particular tribute to the Cabinet secretaries. In perhaps the vilest of many vile political deeds they were marched unceremoniously off the premises and suspended under the previous [Eling] regime. A harder-working and more loyal group of staff you won't find anywhere. Thank you Jane and your wonderful team. If I've achieved nothing else I hope I've helped to make you feel valued and indespensable as the workers that you are. This Authority needs people like you.
(Red Yvonne still showing as "Labour" on SMBC website despite current suspension.)
We all know that there was political involvement in this decision not least from the "ranting man" - a Councillor with access to the inner rectum of OCH heard shouting "I want the f*ckers [ie the secretaries] out and I don't want the f*ckers back." Carter may perhaps be assuming that by keeping his mouth shut he will get a half-million pound pay-off like others? Whatever the position he has refused to dub in "the ranting man" (and other senior Labour Councillors involved in this shaming degringolade) but has maintained the fiction that he alone made the catastrophic decision based on "expert" advice from, er, Sandwell's own HR department.
There is a temporary s.151 Officer in post (a legal requirement) and everyone is tight-lipped about Carter. It SEEMS that he is still suspended so that WE are paying his high wages whilst he sits at home (metaphorically) w*nking over photos of Steve "Squealing" Eling. That's where your money goes in this corrupt Labour shambles folks...
Meanwhile - and despite his shocking conduct - a number of Councillors, including some of the worst scum in the Labour Group, are SUPPORTING Carter!
In the meantime the head of HR, Richard Luckman, left suddenly and without explanation. He was deeply unpopular with some staff - not least for ringing a little bell when he wanted the drones to gather round and listen to his inane witterings.
[There are also serious questions about the amount he spent on HR's offices in Providence Place (PP). He is said to have wanted it to look like an "Apple Store" and even the stools were said to be £140 each. More info welcome on this please...
Now the word on the street in that "senior HR Manager" "lol" Louise Lawrence has also gone in mysterious circumstances. Official sources claim this is confidential but her email account is blocked. She herself still claims to be employed by SMBC on her LinkedIn account but many say she has gone.
We do know that she was also most definitely involved in the shocking secretary scandal. It is not clear whether she was the "expert" the nasty Carter supposedly turned to but my Tribunal case flushed out emails showing her involvement - not least a facetitious email to Stuart Taylor seemingly making a joke of the horrendous situation the wronged women found themselves in.
So what is happening in HR? Over to you dear Readers"!
Staying on the subject of Sandwell HR Luckman's PA, Barbara Everson, left a while ago (and it is said the megalomaniac found he needed two replacements for her single post.) The Skidder has fielded loads of complaints from SMBC staff over the years about the three unions. There was (and still is) a widespread perception that the unions were too close to Labour Councillors and management including Luckman's HR guys and gals. There is widespread concern about the unions ignoring the rights and wrongs of dismissals provided that us taxpayers gave the departees a generous pay-off. The Jez Hall affair was a particularly egregious example where very many people thought his treatment by Britton and Co. was wholly unacceptable.
Disclosure of documents about Jan Britton's war on The Skidder has produced yet another odd episode - involving La Everson. She wrote the following to a Sandwell union rep (one on Facility Time ie paid by us taxpayers to be a trade union apparatchik rather than a "normal" employee):
You will see that Everson agreed to meet the Union Rep at Providence Place. All very cosy. I asked the Council to disclose the envelope of letters but have been told officially by the Council's legal department that the documents have been destroyed by another employee (NOT the union rep or Everson) as the documents did not relate to Council business! Sandwell refuse to name the employee (info welcome) but what the f*ck was going on here between taxpayer-funded employees? HR and a Union conniving over letters seemingly collected to cause me harm whilst at work and on council premises. These are the lengths these scum will go to in an effort to shut this blog up!
[Thanks to anon for the letter on the planning application.]
Another odd affair is developing over at the big-spending and useless Sandwell Children's Trust. SCT was set up, of course, because of the disastrous performance towards vulnerable children by Simon Hackett and the Labour dictatorship. The job was taken out of their hands but a Labour crony put in charge - Jacqui Smith. Despite the horror story for local kids she can seemingly manage to run this sh*tshow whilst appearing on Strictly Come Dancing. Let's hope the BBC introduce the Hornpipe this year since she has been burning through money like a drunken sailor (apologies, as always, to inebriated matelots.)
A whistleblower recently expressed concern about a vulnerable adult who is alleged to have an interest in, at "best", imitation firearms. It is claimed that a worker in SCT's Leaving Care Team visited him and took a picture of himself with one of the weapons which he then placed on Instagram. And it is true, Reece Forrester of SCT pictured himself brandishing a Millbro 357 Airsoft Revolver with a caption saying "When Monday Home Visits End Like This" and smiley emojis. I will leave it the court of public opinion to decide how appropriate this glorification of firearms is by an employee of a Children's Trust but an important question is whether the child in care in under 18 since it is illegal to buy these items until majority. Further is it appropriate for carers to "borrow" items - especially imitation firearms - from their charges for selfies? It may be that Forrester has answers to explain his extraordinary conduct but having raised the incident in writing with Smith's SCT they have, er, declined to substantively respond. The usual rule in the care of minors in the real world outside bent Labour Sandwell is that the interests of the child are paramount. However, one "Reece Forrester" is named as a Unison branch steward at SCT. Can SCT's inactivity and Forrester's union role be related perchance? I think we should be told don't you readers?
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