Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 25, 2012 21:29:44 GMT
The BBC have been gnawing away at bonuses paid, particularly banks, despite where it is a contractual payment based on performance. Yet the BBC are paying bonuses to staff for their non-performance. Apparently anybody who has been working for more than 5 years at any of their 40 local radio station, and having not been promoted during that time, automatically get £4,600 in what the BBC calls 'disappointment money'.
Kelvin Mackenzie has more to say.
Kelvin Mackenzie has more to say.
Now there's a bonus for deadbeats
By KELVIN MACKENZIE
This is an absolute belter — so make sure you have taken your blood pressure tablets before reading on . . .
My mole at the BBC tells me there is much irritability over an independent report, commissioned by the Corporation’s Director-General Mark Thompson some months ago, into the working methods and productivity of staff in local radio.
The report, by veteran commercial radio executive John Myers, is yet to be published but I’m told it reveals an extraordinary arrangement with regard to BBC staff wages.
Apparently, any employee at one of the 40 local radio stations (which employ a total of 3,000 people) who has gone five years without promotion will receive a cheque for £4,600 — which is described as ‘disappointment’ money.
So let’s get this right. You are hopeless at your job and are given no incentive by your bosses to improve because you will still automatically pick up a nice bonus cheque.
The scandal is that our licence fees are being spent on paying for this disgraceful pay structure. Could I urge the BBC to publish this report ASAP so we can then ask Mark Thompson when he intends to dismantle this absurd arrangement.
By KELVIN MACKENZIE
This is an absolute belter — so make sure you have taken your blood pressure tablets before reading on . . .
My mole at the BBC tells me there is much irritability over an independent report, commissioned by the Corporation’s Director-General Mark Thompson some months ago, into the working methods and productivity of staff in local radio.
The report, by veteran commercial radio executive John Myers, is yet to be published but I’m told it reveals an extraordinary arrangement with regard to BBC staff wages.
Apparently, any employee at one of the 40 local radio stations (which employ a total of 3,000 people) who has gone five years without promotion will receive a cheque for £4,600 — which is described as ‘disappointment’ money.
So let’s get this right. You are hopeless at your job and are given no incentive by your bosses to improve because you will still automatically pick up a nice bonus cheque.
The scandal is that our licence fees are being spent on paying for this disgraceful pay structure. Could I urge the BBC to publish this report ASAP so we can then ask Mark Thompson when he intends to dismantle this absurd arrangement.
