$54m of bonuses were paid to non management staff who accepted the pay freeze. Another convenient missing fact!
Wow! Yes I'd overlooked the little over $2000 we received to offset the long-term impact of any pay freeze! $54million eh! That's a big number to share amongst 25,000 staff. Way more than the few million offered to one 'staff member' and the senior management who did it all by themselves with no help from the other 25,000!
To be honest any bonus/bribe that's been offered to non-executive staff since the freeze has been of so little relative consequence compared to the amounts being apportioned to executive staff. I really wouldn't care if I was never offered another bonus and saved the company having to manage a token Staff Travel offering, but I do get frustrated at an adversarial Industrial Relations culture where the groups that have so much to offer the company are treated with disdain.