This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Official Information request 'employee Benefits'.

 
 
13 November 2013 
Official Information Request No. 9000125981 
 (Please quote this in any correspondence) 
 
Ms Grace Haden 
 
 
By email: [FYI request #1219 email] 
 
 
 
 
Dear Ms Haden 
 
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 
Re: Employee Benefits 
 
I refer to your email, which we received on 14 October 2013, requesting information about 
employee benefits. 
 
In the first part of your request you asked for a breakdown of the 35 million difference in the 
group benefits between the last annual report and the current annual report. 
 
The comparison between 2013 and 2012 is distorted as the training expense of $6 million in 
2012 was coded to general expenses rather than employee benefits. This meant the true 
variance at a group level was $28 million rather than $35 million. 
 
The breakdown of the $28 million variance of other employee benefits in the Annual Report 
is made up of: 
  
  increases in Redundancy expenses of $10.2 million,  
  additional Accident Compensation Corporation levies of $5.6 million, 
  Additional costs of $3.7 million to contract staff 
   an increase in the Annual Leave accrual of $1.6 million,  
  an increase in training expenses of $4.5 million  
  an additional $1 million in recruitment expenses 
  Medical insurance of $1 million 
  The remainder is other costs such as fringe benefit tax, protective clothing etc 
 
 
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A breakdown of the 20 million difference in the council benefits for the same period. 
 
Although the reported variance between 2012 and 2013 is $20 million, $10 million of costs in 
2012 was coded elsewhere in the report. The actual variance is $10 million.   The 
differences include $7 million redundancy costs and $3 million additional Accident 
Compensation Corporation levies  
 
You also asked for the number of employees Council has?  
 
The total number of staff at Auckland Council is 7113 
 
How many benefited from these benefits? 
 
Some costs are proportioned across the entire workforce (e.g. training and ACC levies), 
other such as leave accrual are directly related in individual leave balances. 
 
How these were benefits approved? 
 
Benefits are approved by managers in accordance with their delegated authority. 
 
I also wish to apologise for the delay in getting this response to you and draw your attention 
to your right of complaint to the Office of the Ombudsmen regarding this delay. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
Public Information Advisor 
Public Information Office 
 
9000125981 
 
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