Article: LIVERPOOL DAILY POST: Time for review on recruitment.(Leaders)

TO BORROW from Oscar Wilde, to lose to one civic official with a hefty payout may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

Liverpool council has now lost four executives in this way - and taxpayers are bound to be wondering just what on earth is going on in the carpeted corridors of power.

The city council's director of finance is set to depart the local authority with a pounds 500,000 pay-off.

The pay-off itself will see around pounds 420,000 added to out-going executive Phil Halsall's pension pot, and he will also be given an pounds 80,000 lump sum.

Helpfully for the council, the deal also includes a gagging clause.

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