AN eye-watering £945,000 was last year paid out in 'exit packages' to officers leaving the employment of North East Lincolnshire Council.
A total of departing 31 staff were beneficiaries of the hand-outs.
Of these, 18 were made compulsorily redundant while 13 came in the form of 'agreed departures'.
The largest sums will have gone to five officers who had been pocketing salaries of upwards of £60,000 per annum before becoming surplus to the authority's requirements.
The eyebrow-raising figures are revealed in NELC's annual draft statement of accounts.
The corresponding 'exit packages' figure for the previous year was £921,000.
The Grimsby News says: What a crazy world! NELC hires staff, some on bumper salaries, then decides to fork out hundreds of thousands to get rid of them. Why were they taken on in the first place? The amount of money sploshing about in local government is truly extraordinary. Is it right that such a colossal amount of it is dispensed with absolutely nil benefit to the public? And where is the scrutiny by councillors? Someone at NELC needs to get a grip on recruitment and redundancy activity without delay.
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