OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada says it would cease paying its executives and staff tens of millions of {dollars} in controversial “efficiency pay” bonuses however will compensate by rising their salaries as a substitute.
The general public broadcaster made the announcement
Wednesday alongside a four-page memo summarizing a compensation assessment report performed by a human assets consulting agency.
“The Board of Administrators, with the recommendation and concurrence of the President and CEO, has determined to discontinue particular person efficiency pay as a part of the general compensation earned by eligible staff of CBC/Radio-Canada,” learn the assertion.
“So as to hold general compensation on the present median stage, salaries of these affected shall be adjusted to replicate the elimination of particular person efficiency pay.”
The general public broadcaster supplied the bonuses as efficiency incentives to executives and over 1,000 non-unionized staff yearly.
CBC/Radio-Canada spokesperson Leon Mar wouldn’t say if the salaries of staff who had been beforehand eligible for bonuses could be elevated by the very same quantity because the misplaced efficiency pay.
In an electronic mail to Nationwide Put up, he solely acknowledged that salaries could be “adjusted” to stay within the fiftieth percentile
of compensation “for workers in our peer group of media, personal, and public sector organizations.”
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CBC/Radio-Canada will proceed to set particular person and company targets and measure efficiency,” Marr famous, however didn’t element what measures the general public broadcaster will use to incentivize staff to hit their efficiency targets
The general public broadcaster has repeatedly come below hearth from critics, opposition events and even the Liberal authorities for doling out tens of millions of {dollars} in bonuses to executives all of the whereas shedding workers.
Final 12 months, the CBC paid out $18.4 million in bonuses to 1,194 staff — together with $3.3 million to 45 executives — after eliminating lots of of positions,
The Canadian Press reported
.
On the time, Conservatives stated the bonuses had been “past insulting and albeit sickening” and that the general public broadcaster was on the “top of smugness” for paying them at a time of rising affordability points.
However a memo summarizing a compensation assessment by HR consulting agency Mercer and printed by CBC/Radio-Canada say that the Crown firms’ compensation construction has “confronted scrutiny”. However general, it describes “efficiency pay” as a “extensively adopted technique” and thought of “finest apply” inside authorities and Crown firms.
It additionally stated that general compensation, together with bonuses, supplied by the general public broadcaster are on the “midpoint” of the market.
Thus, eradicating the efficiency pay incentives risked dropping general compensation beneath market worth and placing CBC/Radio-Canada at a hiring drawback towards different personal and public sector organizations (not simply in media).
“Whereas CBC/Radio-Canada’s incentive targets are typically conservative relative to market, eradicating incentives altogether would place CBC/Radio-Canada’s compensation beneath market,” reads the memo.
“CBC/Radio-Canada needs to be aware of not falling beneath market if it needs to retain and recruit the experience and expertise it must ship on the group’s nationwide mandate.”
If the Crown company eradicated bonuses, Mercer prompt that it discover different methods to compensate the misplaced remuneration and implement different methods to “drive and handle efficiency.”
The memo additionally argued that the general public broadcaster’s executives are underpaid, however different non-unionized staff’ salaries are aligned with the market. It additionally says the general public broadcasters’ outlined profit pension is a “key instrument” for attracting and retaining staff.
“When all components of compensation are thought of, all non-unionized worker teams at CBC/Radio-Canada are at present aligned with market,” Mercer wrote within the memo.
Final fall, incoming CBC President Marie-Philippe Bouchard listed
compensation as one in every of her first priorities when she assumed the five-year put up on Jan. 3.
“I’m going to be engaged on ensuring that we have now a system that’s clear and that folks can belief in our administration and administration of public funds, particularly within the context of compensation,” she advised MPs throughout a Commons committee assembly in November.
“I’m not tone deaf,” she later added.
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