There will be a few jaws left open at the confirmation of how up to a quarter of senior civil servants earning more than around £60,000 a year have been granted performance-related bonuses whilst lower-paid colleagues see their salaries frozen.
The Western Mail reports that those benefiting are not only employed by the Welsh Government, but by non-devolved bodies such as the DVLA in Swansea, the Office for National Statistics in Newport, the Intellectual Property Office in Newport and Companies House in Cardiff.
ConDem ministers in Westminster think that their assurances of how they are “cutting back” on bonuses will allay fears of a continuing widespread culture of performance-related pay that patently has little to do with actual performance. Lots of luck with that one.
For ourselves, we would like to know how many treasury officials will receive an additional bonus for failing to limit the extent of other corporate largesse in Britain’s unfettered financial sector.
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Remember, though, that bonuses do not count as earnings when assessing pension entitlement.
Is the real irony both 'performance related' bonuses for the Senior Civil Servants and Bankers are being paid with tax payers money.
Neither does overtime - what's your point?
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