Cressida Dick

[dannyk13]

I can't believe that Cressida DIck is getting rewarded for being incompetent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10504449/Cressida-Dick-Sadiq-Khan-war-500-000-payoff-plus-160-000-year-pension.html

[andy-hughes]

It will have been written into her contract, non-performance-based, for which she should be extremely grateful!!

If it had been performance-based, she would be bankruptcy fro paying back her salary with interest!!

[davebro]

disgusting

[Sqad]

I would have thought that it is the position which identifies the salary and pensions etc and not the person and as such is quite reasonable.

[dannyk13]

Sqad, Half a million pounds pay off is reasonable?

[THECORBYLOON]

Following her resignation, why would a contract allow full payment of salary until the end of that contract

[Sqad]

That clearly was part of the contract of the Commissioner of the Met.
Don't blame Ms Dick for that.

Yes,danny, I think it is resonable.

[drmorgans]

So much for the government capping payoffs to £100K.

[dannyk13]

Squad //That clearly was part of the contract of the Commissioner of the Met.//
That isn't clear to me.Never heard of a pay-off being part of a contract in the police force.

[rowanwitch]

Mayor of London gets Dick out, surprised the red tops didn't use it as a headline.

So often the case in top level jobs that termination of contract is very good for the person being terminated early as bad for the employer. This tends to mean the incompetent are usually kept on in harmless new roles rather than being sacked so you really have to be dire for that option to be taken.

[zabado]

It would seem in this country it pays to be a failure. Wait and see how much Khan's going to get when he finally gets the bullet.

[Sqad]

danny...I have never seen a contract given to any serving Commissioner of the Met, so I cannot comment.

[THECORBYLOON]

It seems the same applied to Sir Ian Blair when he resigned from the Met but I cannot see the rationale for an employment contract being written that way.

[davebro]

same with failing football managers innit.

[bhg481]

Yes, the football world don't seem to have caught up with Mourinho's tactics; he signs a lucrative contract, does well for a year before all goes to pot, gets sacked with a multi-million pond payoff and then waits for another club to repeat the process.

[dannyk13]

But don't football managers just receive the remainder of their contract? They don't get a pay-off on top of that.

[naomi24]

It's not a reward for incompetence. With high profile jobs, even in the commercial world, it's what happens. She's been with the Police for forty years. I see nothing extraordinary in it.

[dannyk13]

Naomi //She//'s been with the Police for forty years. //
For which she is amply rewarded with a pension of £160,000 per annum.

[naomi24]

For a job that carried such huge responsibility I don't think the payment or the pension is disproportionate, danny. It wouldn't have surprised me if it had been more.

[Peter Pedant]

Fixed term contract - I bet when she signed it, both parties thought she would stay for 24 m and then they could get er shot.

Now my dears you just DUDN'T listen when I pointed out that a certain Mayor of London ( OK dont guess, Boris J) said he cdnt work wiv Ian Blair MPC, who resigned two hours later - and presented a petition for constructtive dismissal. Unanswerable apparently. and got away with ( wiv dam) a six figure sum
and what happened to Sir Ian ? Yup
lord Ian now

AC 12 - andrew hastings ( liner duty) - how is it possible to fail UP in this job?

yeah I did tell - luckily no one on AB can read

[Gromit]

She signed a new contract in September. Her record was terrible so it was a mistake to renew it.
I expect after Sir Ian Blair won his payout, the contract was changed. And Dick is benefitting.