Eight months after she expressed uneasiness with a policy which gave embattled CLBC executives bonuses, Social Development Minister Stephanie Cadieux doesn’t appear to have an issue with them getting increases in their base pay.
But speaking to CKNW’s Bill Good, Cadieux says the pay hikes – between 4.9 and 9.6-percent – aren’t raises.
“What we’ve done is we’ve standardized the pay structure for CLBC so that we eliminate the bonus aspect.”
Since the bonuses were around 10-percent, Cadieux says overall compensation actually comes down.
CLBC came under fire last year for dishing out bonuses, while making cuts to work assistance and other programs.