In-Sights: Not-Net-zero, on steroids

In 2016, the BC Liberal Government boasted that its four year program of executive salary restraint “demonstrates the effectiveness of ongoing measures to increase affordability, transparency and accountability in public sector compensation.” Increases paid to senior managers in the public sector were to be “consistent with increases provided in collective

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Northern Insight: Pushing back on the pushback

Anonymous reader argued through earlier comments that comparisons between BC Investment Management Corporation and Washington State Investment Board are inappropriate “apples and oranges.” The person attempted to justify huge increases in executive compensation because “Much of the compensation is based on results over the past 4 years.” This question was

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Northern Insight: Hypocrisy reigns

B.C. accused of salary increase ‘double standard’, CBC News, May 3, 2012 “Cabinet staffers got average 10-per-cent hike while ‘net-zero’ offered elsewhere “B.C.’s teachers and many provincial government workers might have been forced to accept “net-zero” contracts, but several staffers working for premier Christy Clark and other cabinet ministers have

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