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974   8 April 2004  

Roll up!  Roll up! 

Here’s a new function, for Politico Pages – politico recruitment!  The Fabian Society is currently recruiting for two politico posts – a £30,000 pa Research Director, and a £19,000 pa Editor, for Fabian Review. Both extremely interesting and challenging appointments.   You would be right at the heart of Westminster, well connected in Government circles, just minutes from Parliament. 

FABIAN SOCIETY - 11 Dartmouth Street London SW1H 9BN
Tel 020 7227 4900 Fax 020 7976 7153

  • Closing-date for Applications: 26 April 2004

(1)   Research Director  - £25,000 - £35,000 pa + 6 weeks' holiday, 7% pension contribution

This is a senior role - the second most senior staff post within the organization - and offers the opportunity to make a significant contribution to political and public debate and to the strategic management of the Fabian Society. As well as overseeing our research programme, the postholder will manage the Society's events team and the researchers working on our flagship Life Chances Commission as well as playing a crucial role in generating future partnership opportunities for the Society.

The current post-holder Adrian Harvey is leaving the Society after four and a half years on the staff to become Head of Policy at CABE.  Adrian joined the Fabian staff as Research Director from January 2000 to June 2002 before being promoted to Deputy General Secretary from June 2002.  

We are likely to appoint at Research Director level (salary scale £25,000 - £30,000) with the possibility of developing the successful candidate in post and promoting to Deputy General Secretary (salary scale £30,000 - £35,000) later on. However, exceptionally well-qualified candidates with significant prior experience of research and staff management may be considered to join the staff at Deputy General Secretary level.

  • Full details of the role and how to apply can be found on the Fabian Society website  Potential candidates interested in discussing the role further before applying may contact Sunder Katwala, General Secretary in confidence on 020 7227 4905 (direct) or 07816 891781 (m), or E-mail Sunder Katwala

(2)  Editorial Manager, and Fabian Review Editor - £17,500 - £19,500 pa + 6 weeks' holiday, 7% pension contribution

The post-holder will be responsible for managing the Society's publishing activities, and will be Editor of our quarterly journal Fabian Review and will lead on editing, producing and marketing the Society's pamphlets, reports and online publications. We are looking for a hard-working and efficient self-starter with strong editorial and writing skills and the ability to think creatively about the future of progressive politics.

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975  8 April 2004  

Job “Security”
 Longer Notice periods are key

The City continues to be racked by disputes over Board remuneration.  But those debates contain the key to a more equitable system of job security for everyone. The denizens of the City have much to teach the rest of us.

Attention has focused in particular on the contractual notice-periods which executive Board members have been awarded, or awarded themselves.  The reason?  In the case of redundancy (e.g. a hostile takeover) each senior manager must receive in compensation at least the pay due for his notice-period.  Thus it had become common for two- and three-year notice clauses to be included in senior contracts of employment, just as it has with football-club managers. 

Shareholders have been outraged, and stung into protest.  The latest casualty is the Tesco Chief Executive Terry Leahy, who has had his two-year notice period cut to one-year.  But when it comes to reasonable notice, every worker should have it.

That is the essence of my Adjustment Pay proposal, which would give all redundant employees continuity-of-pay for six-months’ job search or until finding a suitable alternative job.  I would abolish the whole statutory system of Redundancy Payments, and I would remove from our law the concept of “wrongful dismissal” – which is a quite recent device.   

  • All employers would be entitled to fire as necessary, triggering the Adjustment Pay period of job-search.  However a contract of employment were terminated (except for gross misconduct) Adjustment Pay would be payable, from a fund jointly financed by employers and the State, as Redundancy Payments used to be. 

After all, nobody really believes in literal job security any more.  Jobs change, fashion changes, the ebb and flow of competition generates more frequent changes.  We all realise that.  What we all need is a reasonable opportunity to handle job loss without undue disruption to life and family – that’s all.  That is what these fat-cat City Directors have got, in spades – even with their cut-backs to one-year’s notice.    

  • Adjustment Pay would do more to relieve personal anxiety than any other feature of the contemporary welfare state.

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