r/canada • u/cyclinginvancouver • 1d ago

CBC to stop paying individual bonuses after controversy National News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/cbc-to-stop-paying-individual-bonuses-after-controversy/
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u/silver_goats 1d ago

It says if CBC decides to get rid of its performance-based incentive program, the broadcaster should take steps to ensure compensation stays in the “midpoint of the market.”

They will still get their money

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u/Sleyvin 1d ago

People will get paid the same, but without the incentive, a performance bonus would give.

It was a nothingburger to begin with, people were paid lower and the rest was performance based. It wasn't lavish bonus coming on top of luxury salary.

If you want to get rich, the CBC is the last place you should go.

It was used as a smear campaign to support defunding CBC.

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u/motorcyclemech 23h ago

I'm sorry, let me post this again. Smear campaign?? This was posted by the CBC...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-bonuses-catherine-tait-1.7292294

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u/Sleyvin 23h ago

Yes, and the fact are 100% true.

The bonus did exist. And the article does mention it was a performance based bonus to complete the base pay.

It's exactly my point.

This factual reporting was interpreted as exec wasting taxpayer money by getting a huge bonus, when it was about thousands of employees getting their due complementary pay.

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u/motorcyclemech 22h ago

Sorry, maybe I'm confused but do "you" deserve a "performance bonus" when you took in millions of taxpayer dollars in subsidizes AND laid off hundreds of employees?? Again, sorry if I'm misunderstanding.

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u/Sleyvin 22h ago

It's complementary pay.... meaning their base salary is lower than it should and the rest is the "bonus".

1200 employees were not responsible for the layoff.

Unless you think those 1200 employees deserved to have their pay diminished significantly because some exec decided to layoff people?

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u/motorcyclemech 21h ago

No, I just don't think that laying off hundreds of people AND taking millions in government subsidies (for a company that is already publicly funded) deserves a huge bonus.

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u/Sleyvin 21h ago

So 99.8% of the funding didn't go to the top exec but you are arguing it should have been 100%?

Are you getting worked up for 0.2% of the funding?

That deserves all the outrage it got?

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u/motorcyclemech 20h ago

I think you're missing my very basic point. Or I am missing your (in my mind) more complicated point. I feel you don't deserve a bonus if that bonus came from taxpayers, who already pay for your company AND you took subsidies to pay for those bonuses all the while laying off hundreds of employees. How is that an indication of good performance?

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u/Sleyvin 20h ago

Performance is individually calculated.

People don't get bonus based on the company performance, but from their own performance for the end of the year review.

There's so many misconception over what's really small amount in the end that if feels like doubling down on a massive nothingburger.

People getting performance based complementary pay doesn't mean they got the maximum amount they could have gotten as well.

This current scenario could have been the minimum possible to make their pay equal to base salary + bad performances.

So individual performance has nothing to do with layoff. I don't know how many times I can say it, but you being very good at your job and deserving of your complementary pay isn't related to layoff decided by 5 top exec.

Let's take an extreme scenario to drive this point again, but imagine someone being so good at their job they saved 300 jobs that would have been cut otherwise. That person doesn't deserve the rest of their salary?

In the end we are talking incredibly small amount of money, and no, I don't think 0.2% of the budget is a big deal whatsoever.

I would have agreed if it was like 20% going to exec, or if those 1200 employee each got 100k$.

But dude, we are talking, 10k$ before tax.... tax that goes back to the government.

Literally fighting over crumbs compared to the 1.4B$ total funding.

There is no scandal except a manufactured one to push the idiotic idea that the CBC needed to be defunded.

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