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Title: Pattern- "Management pay cuts due"
Post by Administrator on Jul 3^rd, 2011, 12:44pm

From The Daily Telegraph.

BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten signals pay cuts for senior executives.

Lord Patten believed BBC managers "toxic" salaries were unpopular with viewers and licence fee payers.
He said: "The biggest issue for the public is senior executive pay because what's happened does seem to fly in the face of public service ethos.
"There are four aspects which we will be making announcements about in the next few days.

First of all there's the pay level at the very top; secondly there's the number of people who get more than £150,000; thirdly there's the number of people who are deemed to be senior managers; and fourthly there's the whole issue of fairness across the board, with senior managers getting some deals which don't apply to others.

Lord (Chris) Patten, Britain's last governor of Hong Kong and a former Conservative Party chairman, hailed research by Will Hutton of the Work Foundation into a Government proposal to limit top public servants' pay to no more than 20 times that of their lowest paid staff.

Speaking to BBC1's Andrew Marr Show, Lord Patten said: "I will be looking very closely at what Will Hutton said about top pay in the public sector - there were some very good ideas."

He added: "You look at the relationship between top pay and median pay and I would like the BBC to be the first organisation in the public sector which gets into implementing some of Will Hutton's ideas."

Lord Patten took over as chairman of the Trust - the corporation's governing body and charged with protecting licence fee payers' interests - in May and today said he wanted a "more flexible, leaner" BBC, "aware of the principles on which it was founded".

He said it was "a fantastic organisation", but said it should "take out a lot of costs" and learn to live within its £3.5 billion budget, funded by the £145.50 licence fee.

"Everybody is having to pull in their belts in and I hope we can pull in ours while producing high-quality programmes still," said Lord Patten.

"We are looking at how much we can get through greater efficiencies, through greater productivity and how much will involve us stopping doing things we would like to do but which are probably expendable."

He said channel and station closures were possible, but praised the much-criticised BBC3 which screens shows such as World's Craziest Fools, Don't Tell the Bride and Kids Behind Bars.

Lord Patten said: "People have sometimes been very critical of BBC3.

"I have watched in the last few weeks a couple of fantastic programmes on BBC3, one on young offenders and another on Afghanistan. They were brilliant programmes."

Source:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8613781/BBC-Trust-chairman-Lord-Patten-signals-pay-cuts-for-senior-executives.html

Title: Re: Pattern- "Management pay cuts due"
Post by Amigo on Jul 3^rd, 2011, 12:50pm

Lord Patten believed BBC managers "toxic" salaries were "unpopular with viewers and licence fee payers."

Perhaps Lord Patten could have said:-

BBC managers "toxic" salaries were "unpopular with viewers and licence fee payers, and present-day and retired staff."

Title: Re: Pattern- "Management pay cuts due"
Post by burgmanman on Jul 4^th, 2011, 1:44pm

And those about to be made redundant.

Title: Re: Pattern- "Management pay cuts due"
Post by Amigo on Jul 4^th, 2011, 2:27pm

..... and those already made redundant........

(nothing personal, you understand....)

Title: Re: Pattern- "Management pay cuts due"
Post by david en france on Jul 4^th, 2011, 2:56pm

I wouldn't mind the "toxic pay" so much if those concerned had not had such a toxic effect on the organisation and let's not forget it started with (Sir) JB back in the 90s......

Title: Re: Pattern- "Management pay cuts due"
Post by JohnW on Jul 6^th, 2011, 10:00am

> let's not forget it started with (Sir) JB back in the 90s......

'Sir' spelled Cur perhaps?? The worst thing ever to happen to the BBC! [Or was that 'Hutton'?]
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