this help you?
Currently at FirstGroup, Richard headed up First's bid in 2012 for the InterCity West Coast line and more recently has been leading First's highly-regarded Hull Trains company as well as other wider development programmes across First's rail businesses Before that he spent 19 years at London Underground (LU) and Transport for London (TfL) where he had a range of senior roles, spending eight years as a director of LU, including a year as interim LU managing director (2009-10), and then a further 18 months as deputy managing director, TfL Rail and Underground (2010-11).
Richard is also a trustee of People 1st – the sector skills council for hospitality, passenger transport, travel and tourism – which works to transform skills in the sector, particularly in the areas of management and leadership, customer service and craft/technical skills.
The question is, was he liked at school?
No, doesn't help - just a list of places he's been - and why so many places? Jumping from job to job - "he had a range of senior roles" - in the pursuit of what exactly? Underground workers seem very keen on strikes and so they are at First Group:
"All-out Leeds bus strike next Tuesday, as bus bosses dismiss workers 20 July 2016
A thousand bus workers in Leeds will strike continuously from next Tuesday (26 July), as the management refuses to talk in the long-running pay dispute and starts dismissing workers for union activities."
www.unitetheunion.org/news/all-out-leeds-bus-strike-next-tuesday-as-bus-bosses-dismiss-workers/ Then I read this, this morning:
"The wages freeze that has afflicted the public sector has certainly not hit the Canal & River Trust's top team, with the organisation's position at seventh in the table of highest paid executives in the general charity sector not at risk.
Total employment costs in the 2016 annual report have risen from £58.6m to £64.7m. For the 1,588 employees outside the magic earning figure of £60,000 the average pay and benefits package worked out at just over £41,000 per annum but for those inside the magic circle just 72 people shared out £1.6m, up from £1.4m in 2015.
For them contributions by the Trust to their pension scheme soared from £28,000 in 2015 to £93,000 in 2016.
The recipients are defined as key management personnel. Just 35 of them earn between £60,000 and £70,000 a year, another 22 earning between £70,000 and £80,000 and eight getting more than £80,000 and another eight over £90,000 – the figures don't include pension contributions.
There are then 16 executives earning between £100,000 and £220,000.
The package during the year for Richard Parry, chief executive, comprised a salary of £188,600 (including car allowance of £9,768) and benefits in kind of £1,247, totalling £189,847. The value of employer contributions during the year to the Canal & River Trust defined contribution pension scheme was £10,730.
There was one employee whose remuneration (excluding redundancies) during the year was higher than the chief executive. Stuart Mills, property director, received a salary of £171,824 (including car cash allowance) performance related pay of £32,655 reflecting the strong performance of our property portfolio in the year ended 31 March 2015, and benefits in kind of £2,682, totalling £207,161. The value of the pension input amount during the year to the Waterways Pension Fund defined benefit scheme, after deduction of employee contributions, was £41,668.
The pay packages are not as substantial as some paid under the British Waterways regime but they are at the top end of the charity sector.
According to the Third Sector website: “General household-name charities pay their highest-paid executives the least, yet have attracted the most criticism – perhaps because they are recognised as charities, with all the connotations of voluntarism the word entails, and have higher public fundraising and campaigning profiles.
“The median pay among general charities, which occupied 47 places in the top 100, fell from £155,000 in 2013 to £145,000 a year in 2015 – a decline of six per cent.
C&RT pay is decided by it's remuneration committee which says: “The Committee continues to be satisfied that the levels of executive director pay are appropriate to the responsibilities of the posts concerned.”
The Committee also says about the bulk of C&RT staff : “We will remunerate all staff at the Living Wage or higher although apprentices will be remunerated at the national minimum wage for apprentices to reflect the value of the training that they are receiving.”
And this:
"Canal & River Trust has upheld a complaint that it is not adhering to its own Customer Service Standards. It has also made a ‘sincere apology’ for not responding to the complaint within the timescales set by its own internal complaints procedure.
It has blamed Jackie Lewis, general counsel and company secretary for the failure but says it is unable to interview her regarding the matter as she has left the Trust." - has she left the country, then? Will Jackie Lewis be arguing that she is not to blame?
Both from The Floater:
www.thefloater.org/floater-november-2016.html As a bus driver in Scandinavia my wages are around £20,000/year - so you can see that the £650 CRT licence is a large chunk out of that. For this I have to wake up at 0515 and get home at 1620. Why are CRT 'executives' being paid so much - are their skills and education really worth SEVEN times as much as what I do? Remember, if they make a slip up, a pen might fall off their desk onto the carpet. If I make a slip up, people are dead, or, at best, horribly maimed.
I suggest that the managers' pay is reduced drastically and that the sudden surplus of money be used for the maintenance of the canals.