Post by mainsail on Jul 29, 2007 7:25:21 GMT
The previous Director General of the BBC - left-wing multi-millionaire and Labour Party donor Greg Dyke - resigned from the BBC in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry
But no one has yet answered the question why this extremely rich man was given nearly half a million pounds for "resigning".
People who resign from their job - even people who resign from the BBC - don't normally receive a bean from their former employer. Why should they? They are, after all, departing of their own volition.
Although it has been reported that Dyke was actually kicked out by the Governors, pleaded for his job back, was refused and finally went, the official position is still that he resigned.
The BBC 2003/4 Annual report says "Greg Dyke resigned from the Executive Committee on 29 January 2004 but remained a member of BBC staff until 29 February 2004.
He was paid £488,416 in line with his contractual entitlement, including £384,000 in lieu of notice"
In "lieu of notice"..why? We are told he "resigned" - therefore he wasn't fired. Therefore no "notice" was given.
We also know from Dyke's own autobiography that there was nothing special about his BBC contract. It was the bog-standard DG contract which - he admitted - he barely bothered to read. There were no clauses in it entitling him to such a lavish pay off on leaving the BBC.
...and yet he walked away pocketing enough money to make a dozens of decent tv programmes.
It's time the BBC explained why it makes so free with licence-payers' money.
But no one has yet answered the question why this extremely rich man was given nearly half a million pounds for "resigning".
People who resign from their job - even people who resign from the BBC - don't normally receive a bean from their former employer. Why should they? They are, after all, departing of their own volition.
Although it has been reported that Dyke was actually kicked out by the Governors, pleaded for his job back, was refused and finally went, the official position is still that he resigned.
The BBC 2003/4 Annual report says "Greg Dyke resigned from the Executive Committee on 29 January 2004 but remained a member of BBC staff until 29 February 2004.
He was paid £488,416 in line with his contractual entitlement, including £384,000 in lieu of notice"
In "lieu of notice"..why? We are told he "resigned" - therefore he wasn't fired. Therefore no "notice" was given.
We also know from Dyke's own autobiography that there was nothing special about his BBC contract. It was the bog-standard DG contract which - he admitted - he barely bothered to read. There were no clauses in it entitling him to such a lavish pay off on leaving the BBC.
...and yet he walked away pocketing enough money to make a dozens of decent tv programmes.
It's time the BBC explained why it makes so free with licence-payers' money.
