Passport Office Bonuses: More Rewards For Failure?

[ChillDoubt]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29073232

As ever, you can't make it up.
I'm being offered £160 instead of a pay rise, which I've not had for 3 years.
Must be in the wrong job.........

[ummmm]

The bonus' relate to the previous year. Why should staff be punished because of what happened this year?

[Prudie]

This has been skewed without the facts to make it look bad. It's performance related pay, based on the previous year, and is standard practice across the civil service who have had pittances of pay rises of no more than 1% for years.
Furthermore the backlog in the passports was in no way related to the staff not doing their job properly, they were just overladen with work thrust upon them due to a change in the rules accompanied by lots of staff cuts.

[THECORBYLOON]

The payments are for 2013/14 and are based on their performances during that reporting year. I have no idea what like the backlogs were in that period or what all the high-ups were doing about it but it may have been outwith the control of the majority who received the payments.

[mccfluff]

the back logs were really bad, i sent mine for renewal on the 26/08 and got it back exactly a week later

[ChillDoubt]

Do you expect the remaining staff to do without their bonus because each successive government have cut budgets to the civil service meaning staff are going and not being replaced, but the work continues to increase!!!
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They've cut budgets everywhere so why does a non-private department get bonuses whilst others don't?
I do without a bonus every year, my work also continues to increase whilst staff are not replaced. It's across the board Colinandjess but then in reality you already knew that.

[ChillDoubt]

Is it in your contract that if you exceed your targets you get a bonus?
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Sadly no. We don't get a bonus for alleviating suffering and prolonging lives.
Be rich if we did!

[youngmafbog]

If it is in a contract then it shows how out of touch the civi,l service still is.

This is wrong, it does not work this way in business why should it for the public sector? I suppose the answer is in the fact taxes have just to be raised to fund it.

As for cuts, that is nonsense. If the departments had not been allowed to fester and accommodate the lazy then they would not have needed cuts in the first place.

[ummmm]

//This is wrong, it does not work this way in business why should it for the public sector?//

What doesn't? Are you saying private businesses don't pay bonuses?

[THECORBYLOON]

Some companies give their staff a discount when buying their own products or goods and services they sell so that, in effect is a bonus.

[retrocop]

ChillDoubt and youngmafbog

There was an old army saying about the replacement SA 80 Assault rifles MK1. until they were upgraded at great cost to our government (Civil Service in Whitehall) by Heckler & Koch. "The SA 80 is like a civil servant.They do'nt work and you can't fire it" How true.

[Prudie]

Totally untrue these days.

[ummmm]

My OH gets an annual bonus. The amount depends on profits. He works for a civil engineering company.