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The education agency in Oslo has come under huge criticism after Dagbladet revealed the salary party to the agency’s directors earlier this fall.
It also drew attention when Dagbladet reported that the agency’s new head, Marte Gerhardsen, increased the number of directors despite promises to the contrary.
Despite harsh criticism from city hall and referrals from school councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV), Dagbladet can now say that the Education Agency will rehire more directors.
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30 directors
Dagbladet is aware that the agency will replace the current director of human resources.
In addition, two new director positions have been announced: director of the administrative services department and director of the department of cooperation and development of services.
When the positions are filled, the number of directors in the agency will be 30. When Marte Gerhardsen took office, he promised in an interview with VG that the top management of the agency would be six people.
The news of the appointments of new directors immediately provokes reactions in the political environment of Oslo.
– This seems absolutely incredible. It seems that Marte Gerhardsen has not understood at all the political signals of the city council or his own city council. No one has asked him to hire more directors now, on the contrary, Hallstein Bjerke (V) tells Dagbladet.
“Serious misinformation”: – Agreement does not exist
– Find something else
In addition to a director-level pay party, 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.
Earlier this week, Aina Stenersen told Frp that the party’s confidence in Gerhardsen and Thorkildsen is now low. Hallstein Bjercke goes far in the same direction.
– If you have vacant director positions, you should have taken the opportunity to downsize your organization; here it does the exact opposite. If you can’t lead the education agency in Oslo without having more than 28 directors, maybe you should look for something else to do, Bjercke continues.
– She pretended not to know
The support group: – Completely irrelevant
The council’s supporting party, Rødt, is also perceived as provocative.
– It is completely inappropriate to create now more director positions in the Education Agency, says Eivor Evenrud (Red) to Dagbladet.
On Thursday, he presented a proposal to stop all director appointments in the Oslo municipality.
The proposal also asks the city council to enter into a dialogue with directors and other employees with more than a million annual salary to request that the highest paid volunteers reduce their salary.
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Storm
Today’s city hall in Oslo is made up of the Labor Party, SV and MDG. They depend on the support of Evenrud and Rødt to retain power. Evenrud has been critical of the city council’s handling, communication and practical politics surrounding the Dagbladet revelations.
Yesterday, the school’s Team of Teachers came out for the first time and reprimanded Inga Marte Thorkildsen for spreading incorrect information to the public.
Dagbladet has previously also been able to say that Thorkildsen and education director Marte 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.
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I found a “wise message”
This week, Dagbladet was also able to report text messages in which the controversial pay party at the Oslo school was justified on equal pay grounds.
Aina Stenersen in Oslo Frp is one of those who react strongly to this. Stenersen believes that Thorkildsen has tried to mislead the opposition in Oslo and has not given them the information he should give.
Previously, Dagbladet was able to show that the leader of the Education Association in Oslo was instrumental in drafting the agreement and that he helped Education Director Gerhardsen find “a wise message” to convey to the critical press.
