'As the BBC spokesman put it, “bonuses are part of staff’s contractual entitlement”. In other words, they're part of salary.'
I can confirm this to be completely true. Where I worked, staff considered bonuses to be absolutely essential - and if, for some reason, they didn't manage to achieve their easy target, there was uproar!
Quite true. Many years ago I attended an interview for a position at the local council where I was informed of all the benefits. Not only was the bonus guaranteed, the maximum working hours per week was 37.5. Reach your hours by Friday lunchtime and you could go home.
In fact they spent more time explaining the benefits then explaining the job.
I regret to say I turned the job down as I didn't want to work with people I considered unable to do the job they were supposed to be managing
The LSC certainly exceeded its targets when they discovered that the demand for free ESOL courses was bigger than expected (because it is, of course, infinite). Result: the private sector lost business as middle class EU students opted for free rather than paid, and the public sector were overwhelmed. Now they're cutting back - but this folly cost us taxpayers the best part of a billion. More here: http://dblackie.blogs.com/the_la...ing-up-
aft.html
(if that's OK Mike)
David
Chris and Bob
Very interesting.
Of course, guaranteed bonuses do exist in the City and elsewhere in the private sector. But they're usually given on a one-off basis as part of initial recruitment. And very often they turn out to be corrosivve in terms of how existing staff feel about them.
Guarantees sound like they're endemic in the public sector.
David- you're quite right of course. I forgot to mention that.
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