Council backs plan to provide more details on employee compensation
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City council has unanimously backed a plan to release more details contained in employment contracts with senior civic staff and to provide more information about employee salaries.
Councillors approved on Wednesday a motion proposed by Coun. Scott Gillingham. He called for a more detailed breakdown in the annual compensation report, which currently only provides the total sum paid to employees earning $50,000 or more annually.
“Disclosure is critical to the public having confidence in government,” Gillingham told executive policy committee councillors earlier this month. “The level of public confidence in government is proportional to the level of transparency within government.”
Mayor Brian Bowman applauded the unanimous decision by council Wednesday.
“It would assist in many of the questions you have every year when the public disclosure report comes out,” he said during a council meeting break.
Gillingham’s motion calls for the annual employee salary disclosure to be broken down into regular pay, overtime, vacation, sick leave cash out, special bonuses, severance, and any other compensation. It also seeks more details from all employment contracts with senior civic staff to be released.
Gillingham’s motion was sparked by the controversial payout to former acting chief administrative officer Deepak Joshi. Joshi quit his job in February 2015 after being suspended by Bowman the month before, but his compensation for the year was $567,000.
The annual disclosure report is mandatory at all government agencies in Manitoba. The report lists an employee’s total compensation, the department in which they work and their job classification. An exception was recently made for police officers – while their rank and compensation is stated, their name is replaced by a random number that changes every year.
The Provincial Public Sector Compensation Act would have to be amended to allow for the proposed changes. Bowman said the province “has expressed an interest to look at this.”
“I suspect they were waiting to hear from council,” he said.
Bowman hopes to have the new policy in place before next year’s report.
The motion now needs the provincial government to amend a legislative act.
