Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 13, 2015 15:04:31 GMT
The BBC have pledged to axe bonuses and they have kept their pledge - BBC style.
They've renamed them 'recognition scheme' and as you will read, the common name we call these kind of payments is BONUSES.
Yet the BBC still tries to deny they are the same.
The fact that they can take the public for being so stupid and impotent is the real worry. The public clearly are!
They've renamed them 'recognition scheme' and as you will read, the common name we call these kind of payments is BONUSES.
Yet the BBC still tries to deny they are the same.
The fact that they can take the public for being so stupid and impotent is the real worry. The public clearly are!
BBC accused of covert plan to bring back bonuses
Corporation admits new 'recognition scheme' awards staff top-up payments
By Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent
The BBC has been accused of reneging on its promise to axe bonuses, after admitting that it runs a staff “recognition scheme” that paid out £700,000 last year.
The corporation announced in 2009 that it was axing bonuses, as part of a clampdown on salaries and perks, but yesterday it admitted that it had introduced a separate scheme to provide staff who had made “exceptional contributions” with top-up payments.
Gerry Morrissey, the general secretary of Bectu, the broadcasting union that unearthed the scheme, accused the corporation of “lying through its teeth”.
In a letter to the corporation’s human resources director, Valerie Hughes D’Aeth, Mr Morrissey wrote: “Although the BBC refers to this as a recognition scheme, paying a discretionary one off cash payment that is not paid to all staff amounts to a bonus in my view. Therefore your previous reply that the BBC does not pay bonuses is disingenuous to say the least.”
The new additional payments scheme, which includes both cash and vouchers, was introduced in 2011, and is not available to senior managers. Recognition awards are only available for workers paid under £75,000.
Just under 800 payments were made last year, and the maximum awarded was £4,000. The majority of staff who received such payments were staff on salaries of between £25,000 and £40,000. The average payment was £895.
A BBC spokesman said: “The BBC removed discretionary bonuses for all staff six years ago as part of a strict policy of pay restraint and headcount reductions that have saved us over £150m a year. The BBC’s ‘recognition scheme’, which was introduced in 2011, is not a bonus scheme and is designed to thank and recognise exceptional contribution for staff below senior manager level. It is not available to senior managers.”
Corporation admits new 'recognition scheme' awards staff top-up payments
By Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent
The BBC has been accused of reneging on its promise to axe bonuses, after admitting that it runs a staff “recognition scheme” that paid out £700,000 last year.
The corporation announced in 2009 that it was axing bonuses, as part of a clampdown on salaries and perks, but yesterday it admitted that it had introduced a separate scheme to provide staff who had made “exceptional contributions” with top-up payments.
Gerry Morrissey, the general secretary of Bectu, the broadcasting union that unearthed the scheme, accused the corporation of “lying through its teeth”.
In a letter to the corporation’s human resources director, Valerie Hughes D’Aeth, Mr Morrissey wrote: “Although the BBC refers to this as a recognition scheme, paying a discretionary one off cash payment that is not paid to all staff amounts to a bonus in my view. Therefore your previous reply that the BBC does not pay bonuses is disingenuous to say the least.”
The new additional payments scheme, which includes both cash and vouchers, was introduced in 2011, and is not available to senior managers. Recognition awards are only available for workers paid under £75,000.
Just under 800 payments were made last year, and the maximum awarded was £4,000. The majority of staff who received such payments were staff on salaries of between £25,000 and £40,000. The average payment was £895.
A BBC spokesman said: “The BBC removed discretionary bonuses for all staff six years ago as part of a strict policy of pay restraint and headcount reductions that have saved us over £150m a year. The BBC’s ‘recognition scheme’, which was introduced in 2011, is not a bonus scheme and is designed to thank and recognise exceptional contribution for staff below senior manager level. It is not available to senior managers.”