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– I think Thorkildsen and Gerhardsen behave in a very disorderly way, and they almost try to “fool” the city council over and over again by providing other information in private than in public, says Aina Stenersen to Dagbladet.
Oslo’s FRP top reacts strongly to Dagbladet’s article on Friday.
It turned out that the larger pay increases in the controversial pay match at the Oslo school were justified by equal pay considerations in private text messages between the councilor of the school Inga Marte Thorkildsen and the principal of the school Marte Gerhardsen.
«(…)FYI: The two who have been raised significantly are elementary school principals who had an unacceptably much lower salary than male colleagues who have exactly the same job.»Gerhardsen writes to Thorkildsen in an SMS on October 22.
Summoned to a salaried five-hour barbecue
– Farse
This is somewhat different from what Gerhardsen has said publicly, where the argument in favor of the salary party has always been an area of extended responsibility for his 28 directors.
Inga Marte Thorkildsen has also failed to mention equal pay on any of the several occasions that the Oslo city council questioned her about Dagbladet’s revelations about the Oslo school.
Øystein Sundelin (Conservatives), like the FRP, is also upset by the leadership of the city council.
– I think that the whole charade with Inga Marte Thorkildsen and Marte Gerhardsen gives an ever greater impression of a political and administrative leadership of the Oslo school that is more concerned with their external appearance than with ensuring more learning in the school, he says to Dagbladet.
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– Thorkildsen pretended
Aina Stenersen in Frp recalls that she has received other responses from Thorkildsen in the town hall than those that appeared in Dagbladet on Friday.
It’s serious, according to the FRP.
– At the town hall it became clear that Thorkildsen pretended not to know that some of the directors have received a salary increase by gender, and could not explain the “extra tasks” with which the salary party has also been justified, and with what many directors they have also asked what exactly it is, says Aina Stenersen.
– The situation is critical between the Oslo school and the lack of leadership of the city council, and is strongly influenced by the retention of information, he adds.
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– Little confidence in Inga Marte
Stenersen emphasizes that Frp’s trust in Councilor Thorkildsen is steadily declining as new revelations emerge about her management of the Oslo school.
– This case should have consequences for both Thorkildsen and Gerhardsen. We are in a very serious epidemic in which the Oslo school needs more than ever support, funding and good information from its leaders. FRP awaits the January hearing and has little confidence in the city council, says Aina Stenersen.
Previously, Dagbladet has also been able to tell that Thorkildsen and Gerhardsen feared a strike as a result of the wage match and that they had a very close dialogue with the leader of the Education Association in Oslo. Together, the three agreed on a “wise message” in the face of criticism, which has angered several other unions.
– Very serious
The equal salary is skipped
In her responses, Inga Marte Thorkildsen skips Friday’s reveal at Dagbladet.
– Inform the city council regularly and to the best of my ability. In previous statements, I have said that the salary increase of some employees, among other things, has been due to greater responsibility. The director of the Education Agency has stated the same. Therefore, it is completely wrong to suggest that the city council has been misinformed or “misled,” writes Thorkildsen in an email to Dagbladet.
– I also hope to answer all other questions in the hearing. The Culture and Education Committee called me in January.
In addition to a director-level pay feast, Dagbladet has also documented millions spent on consultants, headhunters, and American leadership training. The opposition in Oslo, as well as several in the Storting, have reacted strongly to the use of money in the Oslo school run by SV and Thorkildsen.
Red on the eyelashes
KrF and Venstre are also making noise with sabers. Rødt, which is the council’s supporting party, has not responded to Dagbladet’s questions in this case.
Eivor Evenrud (R) was the one who called Thorkildsen to the audience, and he will likely have the future of the town hall in his hands when it is finished. Evenrud has previously been highly critical of the use of consulting, in particular, Dagbladet revealed at the Oslo school.
– Here we see a clear discrepancy between SMS and what is presented to us politicians. This is very serious, says Espen Andreas Hasle, a member of KrF, to Dagbladet.
– What I react the most to is that we cannot trust what the director of education says. Over and over again, he gives the city council the wrong information. He says one thing to his own boss, the city councilor. She also says something completely different to the city hall. Both cannot be true. It is very serious that we have a director of education who repeatedly shows faulty judgment and whom we cannot trust to tell us the truth, says Bjercke.
Gerhardsen’s explanation
Dagbladet raised the matter with Gerhardsen via email:
– Directors whose salary has been adjusted have received it based on the change in responsibilities and work tasks. In the placement process, we saw that some directors, when they were placed in their new role, had a very low position in relation to the responsibilities and tasks of the new organization. As a complementary part of that evaluation, we analyzed what the others with the same new role had in the salary. It was felt that the placement should mean that pay and responsibilities matched, but the main reason for the salary adjustment was the change in job responsibilities and tasks, Gerhardsen responds.
