mercalia wrote:a production company co-founded by Graham Norton which makes the BBC’s Graham Norton Show, reveals that it also paid the chatshow host more than £2.6m last year."
I've been telling you that from the start.
Vorpal wrote:If all salaries were made public, I think there would be far more to be upset about than the BBC
I think Norway do so( you'll know the full detail ) but I think it is logged when you make an enquiry about a salary...... so still not very transparent. A bit like google tracking your viewing of websites, you want to see a colleagues salary without announcing it. There is too much secrecy where remuneration is concerned and that falls into the lap of those who play games to increase their lot rather than just do a good days honest work. There are still many who just go to work, complete all thats expected of them in an acceptable time and don't play the office politics. I found them often to be those on the lowest incomes( but that speaks volumes ), but good people who'd always muck in to solve a problem. Sadly I couldn't say that about those I worked with in senior roles+management, every opportunity to dodge responsibility was the attitude, early finishes, "working from home", sickness that always followed a pattern... school holidays etc. The system works in their favour.
Many years ago I was thinking how we could redress the extremes of directors pay. My solution was to bring in rules whereby no-one in a company could earn more than a multiple of the mean of the workforce. It would take fine tuning but I felt it would work. Many years later I found out that John Lewis the founder of that retailer built such a rule into his organisation. I think I'm just a person who believes in a more balanced capitalism and also in the positive aspects of workers co-operatives and egalitarianism. Oftn people cite how many they employ as if it's a charitable altruistic deed. It isn't, if those staff are needed to meet increased demand and hence increase profits then thats the choice. To not employ would simply mean lost work and a decreased opportunity to increase ones wealth... potentially closing it down. It's a balancing act but your success depends on those you employ and they should be treated in a fair manner not solely as menial individuals to maximise your own income. But we know this is not an uncommon attitude.
