The NDP’s CLBC critic is slamming pay raises being handed out to Community Living BC executives.
Nicholas Simons says those are the same executives who denied the agency had any problems even as stories were being trotted out in the media.
“….the bonus structure, I think is just a symptom of a problem in that agency and I think that the government has mismanaged that file and hasn’t really provided the adequate support to that crown corporation. People were saying why are you always calling for an independent review? because I think an outside view is what’s needed”
Simons says the government never should have used a bonus system in the first place and the executives getting pay hikes are the same ones who denied the agency had any problems to begin with.
“Why was the government using the bonus system in the first place it is just a shell game I think the whole issue around the bonuses was bad public policy completely about PR more than anything and it backfired and they are just dealing with the outfall now.”
The pay raises will make up for recently terminated 10% performance bonuses.
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