Tuesday 16 April 2019

NB Power management pay not excessive, utility claims

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From: "Holland, Mike Hon. (ERD/DER)" <Mike.Holland@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:17:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: CBC and their questionable reporting of the
NB Power General Rate Applications
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

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Methinks the overpaid NB Power president Gaëtan Thomas why the NB Power lawyers and the EUB barred me from intervening as the rate increase hearings N'esy Pas?


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NB Power management pay not excessive, utility claims




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David R. Amos
Methinks the overpaid NB Power president Gaëtan Thomas and his Board of Directors should explain to the Minister Mikey Holland and the folks he represents why the NB Power lawyers and the EUB barred me from intervening as the rate increase hearings N'esy Pas?













Paul Krumm
It is not the amount it is the number that's the problem. Management could be cut by 50% and still be overstaffed.


David R. Amos  
Reply to @Paul Krumm: YUP














Shawn McShane
Has Blaine Higgs put a stop to NB Power's dalliance with Gaëtan Thomas company Joi Scientific in Florida? L'Acadie Nouvelle reported NB Power gave them $13 million....
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM D Name of Issuer
Joi Scientific, Inc. Gaeton Thomas Relationship: Executive Officer X Director Promoter



David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawn McShane: HMMMM












Shawn McShane
NB Power management pay and government pay IS excessive in a province with the lowest private sector pay, the highest taxes in Canada and a population smaller than the big cities.


David R. Amos  
Reply to @Shawn McShane: True 













Paul Bourgoin
I wonder how many undisclosed sweetheart deals are secretly negotiated to the loss of NB tax-payers and who benefits? I also wonder who is NB biggest energy consumer and do they dip into those secretly negotiated sweetheart deals? and if so, why are those deals Provincial Government Secrets!


David R. Amos
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Methinks we all know that you are referring to the Irving Clan so why not say their name unless you are afraid of them N'esy Pas? 













 
Roy Kirk
NB Power has a toothless Board of Directors and politicians to take the heat for any and all of the bad management decisions it takes. How are other companies in the Atlantic region similarly endowed?, and how many of them are in the group that forms the basis of comparison?

David R. Amos
Reply to @Roy Kirk: BINGO 












 
Shawn Tabor
How do you account for Bonuses for a company, that continues to go deeper and deeper behind. What does it owe now 5 billion. A lot of excuses and nobody addresses them. Where do you find a company that pays its top people bonuses for failing to meet their targets. If your at the top, how do you deserve a bonus. Excuses are not accountable anymore. I think folks have had enough. A real sense of entitlement. They are not telling the truth and have been getting away with it for many,many years. The front line workers have expressed this for years. Really sad. Everyone knows, that nothing will change, except increases in your bills to account for their failures. Shameful.


David R. Amos
Reply to @Shawn Tabor: "Everyone knows, that nothing will change, except increases in your bills to account for their failures. Shameful"

Oh So True
 


NB Power management pay not excessive, utility claims

President Gaëtan Thomas earned almost $575K in 2017, latest available figures show


NB Power says employees at the manager level in 2017 earned $104,141 while those at the director level earned $134, 516, but both are below the regional average. (Michael Heenan/CBC)


Executive pay at NB Power may become an issue at its annual rate hearing next month but the utility has already gone on record disputing claims salaries among its managers are bloated, as former premier Brian Gallant openly suggested in last fall's provincial election.

In responses to a series of written questions about pay levels at the utility by public intervener Heather Black in advance of its May rate hearing, NB Power released information appearing to show compensation among its managers are in the bottom 25 per cent of similar employers in Atlantic Canada.

Pay for its most senior executives, including vice-presidents, is as much as $75,000 per year lower than regional peers.




"NB Power non-union salary ranges are trending at the lower end of the annual salary range [for similar regional companies] and [worse] as the annual salary range increases," the utility wrote in explaining its position on management pay at NB Power.

However, the material does not specifically address the pay of NB Power president Gaëtan Thomas who, according to the latest available public accounts, earned just below $575,000 in 2017 — about $300,000 more than the utility's senior non-nuclear vice-presidents.
Executive pay at the utility became an issue during last year's provincial election when then-Liberal leader Brian Gallant proposed freezing residential and small business power rates. Gallant suggested management downsizing and pay cuts among senior NB Power executives could pay for much of the $13 million per year in lost revenue he estimated a rate freeze would cost.

"There is not a New Brunswicker that would not be able to be convinced that there are efficiencies to be found [at NB Power]," said Gallant during the election campaign about the utility's ability to live with a freeze.

"We have no doubt we are going to be able to implement it with these slate of measures … some of which are making sure that the executive management is reduced and looking at their salaries as well."

Black followed up on the issue earlier this year in a series of written questions to the utility about how executive pay is set and evaluated. The answers have been filed with the Energy and Utilities Board.

Heather Black, the public intervener, asked for more details about evaluations NB Power's board has done of senior executive pay, but that information has not been made public. (Robert Jones/CBC)

According to NB Power, it strives to pay its non-union staff the average amount earned by employees in similar positions with similar companies operating in Atlantic Canada. It also participates in an annual independent national salary evaluation to assess its compensation levels.

But its reports suggest that in recent years wages for NB Power managers has fallen behind the 50th percentile target it has for itself among regional employers.

According to the information released, in 2017 NB Power employees at the "manager" level earned $104,141 — about $9,800 less than the regional average. At the "director" level, NB Power employees earned $134, 516 — about $26,000 below the average.

The report is less precise about pay levels of upper management but charts included in the material suggested gaps between NB Power and other employers widen as pay increases. One chart indicated that an employee at the vice-president level qualifying for $250,000 in pay at NB Power was $75,000 below the average being paid for the same job requiring the same skills elsewhere in the region.

NB Power says those numbers come from the Hay Korn Ferry annual salary survey.

Analyzed for market competitiveness


"NB Power's pay grades are analyzed against this data to assess the market competitiveness of salaries in relation to equivalently evaluated jobs," said the utility in answer to Black's questions.

"Included in this cut are organizations such as [Newfoundland] Power, Saint John Energy, Maritime Electric, [J.D. Irving Limited], Nalcor Energy, AV Nackawic, and NB Liquor Corporation."

Black asked for more specific information on evaluations that have been completed of senior executive pay by NB Power's board of directors but that information was supplied on a confidential basis and not publicly released.

NB Power claims it needs to offer competitive salaries to attract and retain top level employees and in some cases it has exceeded regional salary ranges to fill specialized positions.


NB Power president Gaëtan Thomas saw his salary increase by at least $225,000 between 2010 and 2017, figures indicate. (CBC)

In 2015 it recruited American Brett Plummer to run the Point Lepreau nuclear plant as its vice-president of nuclear and agreed to pay him $650,000 per year to take the job. It was substantially more than the president is paid and nearly triple what other NB Power vice-presidents were getting at the time.

NB Power's report disclosed mid-level management positions received salary increases of about about 15 per cent in the eight years between 2009 and 2017, compared to 38 per cent among average regional employers.

Figures for upper management were not revealed although there are signs increases at those levels were more generous.

For example, according to the public accounts, NB Power president Gaëtan Thomas's salary increased by a minimum of $225,000 between 2010 and 2017 to finish just below $575,000.

That's an increase of at least 69 per cent for Thomas although his 2017 pay was still well behind the $695,000 earned in 2017 by Nova Scotia Power president Karen Hutt.

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Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of price regulation in 2006. 


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---------- Original message ----------
From: "Holland, Mike Hon. (ERD/DER)" <Mike.Holland@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:17:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: CBC and their questionable reporting of the
NB Power General Rate Applications
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

Thank you for your email.  Your thoughts, comments and input are
greatly valued.  You can be assured that all emails and letters are
carefully read, reviewed and taken into consideration.

If your issue is Constituency related, please contact Cheryl Layton at
my constituency office in Albert at (506) 856-4961 or
Cheryl.Layton@gnb.ca.

Thanks again for your email!
Mike Holland
Minister
MLA, Albert

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Député, Albert



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