Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 5, 2011 16:15:18 GMT
Just a few days ago we read that the BBC had justified paying out £32.5 MILLION a year to 8,000 of their employees in something they called 'Flexibility Allowances', despite none of their media rivals offering anything like this.
Like the pigs they are, not satisfied with their existing 'gorging at the money trough', now they tried to give its managers what would amount to a further 10% bonus for 'beating performance targets', under their proposed ‘Executive and senior manager pay strategy’ plan. My understanding has always been that one gets paid to do a job, not get paid extra for doing it. If they can't do it they shouldn't be employed to do it.
This time the chairman of the BBC Trust has blocked it, but it shows the real intent and mindset of the BBC hierarchy.
For the country not to force the government to privatise it is to deserve our demise.
Like the pigs they are, not satisfied with their existing 'gorging at the money trough', now they tried to give its managers what would amount to a further 10% bonus for 'beating performance targets', under their proposed ‘Executive and senior manager pay strategy’ plan. My understanding has always been that one gets paid to do a job, not get paid extra for doing it. If they can't do it they shouldn't be employed to do it.
This time the chairman of the BBC Trust has blocked it, but it shows the real intent and mindset of the BBC hierarchy.
For the country not to force the government to privatise it is to deserve our demise.
Lord Patten blocks BBC boss's bid to give managers 10% pay bonuses despite cuts
By Julian Gavaghan
Last updated at 4:25 PM on 5th September 2011
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten blocked corporation boss Mark Thompson’s bid to bring back bonuses for senior managers despite attempts to cut costs, it emerged today.
Mr Thompson, the BBC director-general, proposed that executives could boost their pay by tens of thousands of pounds by earning an extra 10 per cent for beating performance targets.
The scheme would have seen senior staff – including the seven members of the BBC’s board and 540 senior managers - lose 10 per cent of their pay if they fell short of the objective.
But Lord Patten, who has previously described management pay as a ‘toxic’ issue for the broadcaster, said the proposals ‘looked like a bonus by any other name’.
He forced Mr Thompson to drop the ‘Executive and senior manager pay strategy’ plan, in which a draft copy was released to The Daily Telegraph under freedom of information laws.
A source told the newspaper that the proposal created ‘an acute sense of discomfort’ for Lord Patten, who said he would ban bonuses and perks for senior management after becoming chairman of the BBC Trust in May.
The executive added: ‘The feeling is that the BBC has already been clear that bonuses have no place at the BBC and the director-general has realised that.’
The proposal was cut from the final document, written by director of business operations Lucy Adams, which was published alongside the corporation’s annual report and accounts last month after being signed off by Mark Thompson, who earns £638,000 a year.
But in the draft, executives proposed introducing a policy known as ‘earn back’, a concept put forward in a Government report into public sector pay.
It would have allowed pay to rise or fall by five per cent according to performance related targets from 2012/13.
However, after being accepted by the BBC’s executive remuneration committee, it was decided to increase the bonus level from five per cent to 10 per cent.
The same group, chaired by the corporation's senior independent director, have been criticised in the past for failing to curb executive pay.
Finally, at a meeting before the planned publication of the proposal, Lord Patten stepped in and told Mr Thompson to drop the idea.
John Whittingdale, chairman of the commons culture, media and sport select committee, welcomed the peer’s intervention.
He said: ‘Given the past experience of how the BBC has dealt with pay, I think Chris Patten is right to ensure that there is no creeping back to the previous standards.’
A BBC Trust spokesman said: ‘We are not going to get into commenting on the drafting process for the BBC’s senior management pay policy.’
By Julian Gavaghan
Last updated at 4:25 PM on 5th September 2011
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten blocked corporation boss Mark Thompson’s bid to bring back bonuses for senior managers despite attempts to cut costs, it emerged today.
Mr Thompson, the BBC director-general, proposed that executives could boost their pay by tens of thousands of pounds by earning an extra 10 per cent for beating performance targets.
The scheme would have seen senior staff – including the seven members of the BBC’s board and 540 senior managers - lose 10 per cent of their pay if they fell short of the objective.
But Lord Patten, who has previously described management pay as a ‘toxic’ issue for the broadcaster, said the proposals ‘looked like a bonus by any other name’.
He forced Mr Thompson to drop the ‘Executive and senior manager pay strategy’ plan, in which a draft copy was released to The Daily Telegraph under freedom of information laws.
A source told the newspaper that the proposal created ‘an acute sense of discomfort’ for Lord Patten, who said he would ban bonuses and perks for senior management after becoming chairman of the BBC Trust in May.
The executive added: ‘The feeling is that the BBC has already been clear that bonuses have no place at the BBC and the director-general has realised that.’
The proposal was cut from the final document, written by director of business operations Lucy Adams, which was published alongside the corporation’s annual report and accounts last month after being signed off by Mark Thompson, who earns £638,000 a year.
But in the draft, executives proposed introducing a policy known as ‘earn back’, a concept put forward in a Government report into public sector pay.
It would have allowed pay to rise or fall by five per cent according to performance related targets from 2012/13.
However, after being accepted by the BBC’s executive remuneration committee, it was decided to increase the bonus level from five per cent to 10 per cent.
The same group, chaired by the corporation's senior independent director, have been criticised in the past for failing to curb executive pay.
Finally, at a meeting before the planned publication of the proposal, Lord Patten stepped in and told Mr Thompson to drop the idea.
John Whittingdale, chairman of the commons culture, media and sport select committee, welcomed the peer’s intervention.
He said: ‘Given the past experience of how the BBC has dealt with pay, I think Chris Patten is right to ensure that there is no creeping back to the previous standards.’
A BBC Trust spokesman said: ‘We are not going to get into commenting on the drafting process for the BBC’s senior management pay policy.’