Catherine Tait, CBC/Radio-Canada’s president and CEO, faced angry MPs Tuesday over the company’s refusal to rule out performance pay for some managers in a year when hundreds of employees are poised to lose their jobs.
Tait said this additional pay is baked into a manager’s salary — it’s not like an end-of-year “bonus” that’s standard in the private sector. Part of the pay is held back and only paid out if the corporation hits some preset “key performance indicators” or KPIs, Tait said.
If the company misses any of its KPIs, part of the “at-risk” management pay is withheld, as it was in the
