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[HCDX] BBC gives employees millions of pounds in bonuses
BBC gives employees millions of pounds in bonuses
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20051217T140000-
0500_94806_OBS_BBC_GIVES_EMPLOYEES_MILLIONS_OF_POUN
DS_IN_BONUSES.asp
Career & Education
AFP
Sunday, December 18, 2005
LONDON, (AFP) -The BBC paid millions of pounds in bonuses to its
employees despite cost-cutting that forced it to shed 3,700 jobs, British
newspapers reported Friday.
The publicly-funded broadcaster paid out 15.5 million pounds (22.9
million euros, 27.4 million dollars) to 10,000 of the 22,000 staff on the
BBC payroll.
The BBC said the special bonuses, which were paid earlier this year
and amounted to an average 1,500 pounds per employee, were capped
at 10 per cent of salary and in line with those of similar organisations.
Trade magazine Broadcast unearthed the figures.
The BBC said the bonuses were included in the 1.0386 billion salaries
and wages figure in the corporation's annual report. That figure,
however, does not include the 546,000 pounds in bonuses to members
of its executive board.
"The BBC has a long-standing pay policy which allows for small
discretionary bonuses to be made as part of the BBC's overall
budgeted annual pay bill," the BBC said in a statement.
"Bonuses are only given at the discretion of line managers in
recognition of exceptional performance.
"This system helps ensure that the BBC attracts and retains the best
staff, for the benefit of licence fee payers.
"It is not unusual practice and is in line with pay policies of other media
organisations and many major companies."
The corporation added: "While managers are always mindful of the
need to take great care with licence fee money, even during a period of
cost-cutting it is vital to reward members of staff who deliver high
quality work.
Gerry Morrissey, assistant general secretary of trade union Bectu, hit
back.
"It's bad to be saying to one member of staff 'here's a bonus' and telling
another member of staff that he's redundant," he told Broadcast.
The BBC announced in March it was slashing 3,780 jobs over three
years to cut costs.
The organisation is funded by the licence fee, an annual levy on every
television-owning household in Britain, which the BBC argues is a
guarantee of its independence and quality.
A BBC spokeswoman told AFP: "For the senior executives, one of the
attractions of going outside is that you get offered much more money if
you work for commercial organisations.
"The media is a very competitive industry and people always try to
poach quality people, so there has to be a way to keep the people you
want."-
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