If by “broken”, they mean “working as designed”: Year-end bonuses for federal executives are not literally tied to departmental performance, says a Treasury Board report. It follows data showing departments typically reward 90 to 100 percent of managers regardless of failure: “There is a system that is broken.”
So bonuses (government) are really participation awards?
Did they receive the Ramadan Bonuses while still working from home in 2025? Just curious.
Now what would compel the author of that little paragraph to throw in “literally”?
As for the story, what has Pee-pee said?
They are getting bonuses for supporting the Liberal government.
I suspect the much-abused “Pay for Performance” scam is responsible. It sounds like a wonderful way of getting employees to do better work that supports the organizations goals. Unfortunately, since those performance goals are generally a mutual negotiation between employee and supervisor, it is all too easy for clever persons to create goals that appear to be a significant challenge, but in reality are at best just the ordinary day-to-day job and require no extra effort at all.
In government getting a bonus is a given. The only rationale for a bonus is that private companies give them so we get them too. Performance has absolutely nothing to do with it.