Whilst not withdrawing my comments that i feel the redundancies were driven by, or at least the catalyst for change due to, CCFC's departure the following can be gleaned from the ACL accounts.
Year.........Staff*..........Wage cost..........Turnover
2012............23.................1.43m................7.7m
2013............18...................960k.............14.49m
2014............17...................702k.............12.16m
2015............18...................758k...............6.99m
2016............47.................1.87m...............8.99m
2017............55.................1.90m................9.9m
2018............57.................1.90m................9.2m
* staff numbers above for ACL and below for wasps holdings group are the average monthly number disclosed in the financials
Not all those that work there are included in the figures for ACL or the group. The majority that had employment were employed through Compass on zero hours contracts, and Compass also had their operational staff on site. From what i hear Delaware operate slightly differently in that they prefer proper contracts where possible although not always, but do also have operational staff on site as well.
The wasps holdings group financials provide the following info that is relating to their business at the Ricoh
Year............Other Staff*........ Players..........Total cost.........Turnover
2015.......................150................57.................12.6m..............21.4m
2016.......................159................57.................17.4m..............30.9m
2017.......................153................53.................12.3m..............32.9m
2018.......................181................52.................13.4m..............32.8m
* other staff will include the coaching staff i think
Make of it what you will, but from looking at it it seems to me there were too many staff allocated to ACL. Things can be moved around to suit and there could be specific reasons but ACL in years to 31 May 2013 & 2014 (pre wasps) on a third of the staff at half the cost achieved nearly 50 to 60% more Turnover than the year to 30 June 2018. Wage costs seem to have got out of step with what was being achieved at ACL. That's poor management really.
I still think that saying it had nothing to do with CCFC leaving is disingenuous and no one is really going to believe it, especially when it seems obvious to me that a review of staff costs at ACL has been needed for some time, why didn't they do it before?
