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May 212013
May 212013
BLACKPOOL COUNCIL fat cats are this evening thrashing out a new pay scheme that will see its top team paid bonuses that they claim will be linked to performance.
A report prepared (by external consultants Hay Group) for tonight’s meeting states that; “Individuals [will] receive financial rewards in the form of increases to basic pay or cash, which are linked to an assessment of performance usually in relation to agreed objectives.”
Executives will be given ‘six challenging targets’ and will be paid bonuses in proportion to their success rate in the same way bankers are. Performance will be measured on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being ‘did not meet expectations’ and 5 being ‘far exceeded expectations’. Ergo, executives will set their own targets and determine their own performance score and pay – much like MPs who determine their own pay (without the performance to go with it). Would the wedding shed and the Promenade have rewarded responsible officers with a bonus under this scheme? It’s more than likely.
But these are not one-off bonuses. Oh no. These bonuses would be consolidated into their basic pay as a permanent pay rise, which suggests a kind of bonus accumulator which would put casino bankers to shame, and in addition (yes, there’s more) there would be non-consolidated cash bonuses paid for ‘high levels of performance’ (as determined by, oh yes, council officers themselves in league with whichever political marionettes are in power).
Indeed, the report states that the payment scheme ‘could look like a bonus scheme if not communicated properly’, which is an argument of semantics presumably because of the stigma attached to bonuses following the casino banking crisis, and because it is known that residents will not be happy to see Blackpool Council’s executives being paid bonuses.
Food for thought: would information of these bonus payments be a matter of public record or would we only get to see the basic salary of an executive?
May 022013
SOME TOP Tory MPs have been in the papers over the last few weeks trying to label UKIP candidates as loonies, bigots, and in today’s Telegraph they are called ‘fruitcakes’. Call me Dave has reiterated that we will get an EU referendum by some date in the far distant future (when he more than likely [...continue]
Apr 292013
IT HAS been a while since we have heard much about it, but it is now the best part of a year since Chairman Blackburn launched his Fairness Commission quango on the 14th May 2012. This Commission was designed by the Sun of Socialism (with advice from leftist university lecturers) to arbitrate between the council [...continue]
Apr 252013
OUR DEAR Leader has certainly got his sympathisers wrapped round his little finger, hasn’t he? Dare question Saint Simon Blackburn’s £2million free breakfast smörgåsbord, and you want children to ‘starve’. So say many SS-Blackburn sympathisers on the Geazett. If you take away the free breakfasts, children will die. And it will be your fault. It [...continue]