Feds paid out $191 million in bonuses to public servants

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Conservatives called the bonuses “disappointing” at a time when Canadians are reeling financially from high inflation rates and rising costs

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.

 

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Why are any public servants getting any bonuses in the first place.

This is a very inaccurate pov. Executive level pub servants certainly get bonuses, but that's offset by a lower base wage, no overtime pay, and exclusion from collective bargaining rights.

How much of that was for politicians and not just federal employees. This is misleading.

Ottawa Tax Payers paid this single Ottawa Policeman 1/2 million $$$ while he was suspended with pay for 2 years.

Some of them get bonuses, but are still going to vote to strike? And argue against us 'regular folk' earning a living wage or having a minimum wage increase? 🤷‍♀️

Well deserved lads 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 work in bed and earn more

Get the money back, these people are pariah performing at marginal efficiency at best.

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