Public service executives have access to performance or at-risk bonuses because they are not allowed to claim overtime pay.
“Performance pay is an important component of executives’ total compensation package but must be re-earned each year,” Treasury Board Secretariat spokesperson Barb Couperus said in a statement. He also noted that in 2020-2021 , government departments and agencies only met 45.7 per cent of their combined 2,722 departmental performance results, according to a federal database.“When you’re missing targets over 50 per cent of the time, taxpayers should not be rewarding failure,” he added. “It makes it more egregious when you read that one of every six restaurants are expected to shut down and people’s livelihoods were taken away.
“Departmental plans set out broad, high-level targets for departments while performance targets for individual employees are set using specific criteria, which include management excellence and corporate objectives. To draw a parallel between the two does not provide an accurate assessment of either one,” Couperus said.
At Employment and Social Development Canada , which oversees Canada’s passport program and other federal benefits and services, and Global Affairs Canada both paid out almost $11 million in bonuses.
And what of the grossly indecent profits and bonus our major banks make? insane bonuses companies paid out while refusing to pay living wages to employees?
UCP paid CMOH_Alberta $250K in bonus and the Finance Minister said he knew nothing about it!