We all know there is a contract between employer and employee with which both are expected to comply. We all know how this offers some security to the employee (setting aside the misconceived and wretched “Cameron’s Employers’ Charter”). The contract does not mean an employer cannot ditch an employee outside of the terms of the contract, it just means they have to pay, perhaps heavily, for the privilege. In return, the employee willingly agrees to waive their legal rights. This is what a Compromise Agreement is all about.
I guess in fairness there is a reverse scenario, where an employee compensates their employer for an early exit, but outside of footballer transfers, I have not come across one.
What we have here is an employee who wants to leave quickly and an employer PAYING them to do so, when they could be claiming compensation. This is absurd and if true is one of the worst examples I have seen of the public sector losing complete touch with reality, common sense and the commercial world in general. It is not their money to do with as they wish and such self-serving profligacy is tantamount to treason.
Of course quite right it is nipped in the bud, but all those around her who agreed to it must be brought to account too - they simply do not have our authority to do this sort of thing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9203575/Former-NHS-chief-exec-received-150000-pay-off.html
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