Friday, 5 June 2015

Really, is this Good Enough?

I like the concept of the RSGB.  I don't like the way it goes about things.

Above all, I don't like the way the most senior pay at the society is hidden from those who provide it with a large fraction of its income, and without whom the society would be moribund and insolvent.

Adhering strictly to private company accounting law, the RSGB chooses to tell its members only that one person - we can safely assume it's the General Manager - earns "more than" £60,000 per annum.

Now, that could be £60,001.  Or it could be £100,000.  We don't know.

I think it is utterly unacceptable that a member-based hobby society chooses only to tell those members this minimal amount of information on senior pay.

I want to lead the call to demand the RSGB publishes its senior pay in the interest of showing it is not again slipping into the non-transparent ways that permitted allegedly criminal conduct to hold sway under previous management.

It's all very well to say that the accounting and data protection laws only require this basic level of information.  None of those laws prevent any individuals from doing the right thing and granting their consent to publication of their salary.  

If "lessons are to be learned", as is always bleated, then let them be shown to have been learned - and soon.

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