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Significant effort went into attempts to fill the permanent position on a short-term temporary basis (for example, on temporary transfer or HDA) and these efforts have been explained to you in detail in private discussions. You have all available documented evidence. However, to our knowledge, there were no suitable officers available in DUS at the time.
Temporary position
During the period in which City Services has been .going through the process of filling the permanent AS06, position, the Waste Management. Section of the City Services Group failed to win an important cleaning contract in the Parliamentary triangle. This generated an urgent need for a short project to investigate ways in which Waste Management could be restructured to become more competitive. This is a project which would normally have fallen within the duties of the occupant of PN12551.
Since City Services had been unable to fill the position either permanently or temporarily, it was necessary to establish a short-term temporary position to be filled by a short-term temporary contract. Subsequently, City Services took the following steps to engage a temporary employee for a period of three months.
A request for a temporary employee was sent to Personnel on 20 July 1993 (you have a copy). Details of the duties of the position and skills required were sent to personnel on 21 July 1993 (you have.a copy, along with a copy of the project brief). These are not the duties of. PN12551; though PN12551 would include them.. As the position was short-term and temporary, there was no requirement for it to be referred to the Task Force. In addition; there is no requirement to advertise to fill a temporary employment contract of less than six months for any position above AS01 level.
In its letter to Personnel of 20 July,. City Services requested that a certain person be.included in the list of potential people forwarded from Templine. This is common practice and does not mean that the requested name will be selected for the temporary contract: However, in this case, Templine was only able to nominate that particular person. Personnel then drew up a short-term
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