XXL holidays for his head of HR and fat allowances for his employees: the mayor of Innsbruck, Georg Willi (Greens) should have crossed the line. He has a two-thirds majority against him.
Stand up to the evil right-wing conservative alliance: Innsbruck’s BM Georg Willi is finding it increasingly difficult to stay on track. On Tuesday, he again fell behind in the city council.
The trigger is the 266-page audit bureau report, which was publicly discussed for the first time. However, only briefly. After just a few minutes, VP-GR Andreas Wanker proposed the end of the debate, which was accepted by a majority. Background: Despite three meetings, the audit committee is far from finished with its preliminary consultations.
“Processing just started”
“The organizational and political processing of the events has only just begun,” Wanker said. The media reports of the events in the town hall are not pleasant and detrimental to the search for staff: the city is “represented as a non-professional employer”, Wanker explains. The report is now doing another round of honor in the private commission. The aim is to set up a transparent, performance-related salary system in the town hall as soon as possible.
“A new quality”
Because the special contracts, bonuses and allowances were apparently already opaque before the era of the green mayor. But what Willi has identified in his immediate environment is “a new quality”: “It makes your hair stand up,” said SPÖ city party chairman Benjamin Plach, who, as chairman of the legal committee, covered the main points of the report of the control office:
- Willi awarded his employees only “more than generous allowances” and ignored internal maximums. According to Plach, Willis’ argument that he had to recruit his staff in a highly competitive environment had “a musty aftertaste” because the pattern already existed.
- What a kindergarten teacher earns gross per month (€1,780) is spent on special contractual allowances and bonus payments for an employee in Willis’s office. “Every measure and goal has been lost. The transparency ends at Willi’s office door.’
- The procedure is legally permitted, says lawyer Plach: “But not everything that is legally permitted is also morally justifiable. For politics, legal boundaries are not the yardstick, but proportionality and decency.”
- However, the HR manager’s XXL vacation of 9.5 weeks is “close to the limit of what is legally feasible.” The procedure, if planned from the start, was “beyond irritating”. Other town hall employees can only shake their heads.
- Otherwise, the role model effect of the head of human resources on at least 1,600 employees would have to be questioned: because an attempt was made to complicate the inspection work of the control office.
Willi: “Great!”
That was probably too much of a good thing, confidence is gone: it was only against the votes of the Greens that it was decided to let the city senate decide on the dismissal of the head of human resources. With that, she should be history. “Great,” the mayor scolded, ignoring the dignity of the office. We continue with a special city council!
Source: Krone
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