Rehabgroup CEO retains salary of half a million

madra dubh wrote: »

It just doesn't sit well the fact that people give their time raising money for what they think is to enhance services but in reality is funding fat cat wages.

How much do you think the CEO of Rehab should be paid?

I suppose in the private sector it'd be a case of how much it'd cost to get someone else to do same or better job... And do you get worth from her salary, ( don't forget to add her pension and perks cost onto her package )
It sounds like a lot though...

djpbarry wrote: »

Originally Posted by madra dubh View Post
It just doesn't sit well the fact that people give their time raising money for what they think is to enhance services but in reality is funding fat cat wages.

How much do you think the CEO of Rehab should be paid?

With respect the point is charitable donations made in good faith are not being used for what they are meant for. If I make a donation to rehabcare I would expect it to be used to support the care of their service users. I have in the past made donations to rehabcare in my local town but recently I refused to do so because I have seen the wasteage that the organisation is guilty of. I am reminded of the hospital sweepstakes scandal. This woman is creaming money from an organisation that struggles to provide its service at a local level where every cent is counted and saved.

She should be ashamed of this as it is a complete moral abuse of her position as the 'head' of what people see as a charity. This lack of morality and decency shows up the worst type of greed that seems acceptable to some people in our society. That she continues unabounded in this role without addressing the openly raised public disbelief at the money she 'earns' from this charity does not in my opinion display the compassion that someone in a role involving helping people should have. It is little wonder that under this woman the rehabcare group has developed a layer of highly paid management that does not work directly with their service users. A total disgrace and I would hope that the national media investigate and expose this scandalous situation sooner rather than later. The sad thing is that it is the people on the ground who do provide care and compassion along with the unfortunate service users that are losing out due to the greed of Angela Kerins and her sort.

djpbarry wrote: »

Anyway, the general subject of CEO pay at charities often comes up on this site and there is often a consensus that money spent on six figure salaries is money wasted, as if these organizations are spending big money on directors and executives just for the sake of it. There is obviously good reason why organizations are prepared to fork out to secure the services of certain individuals. The argument that this money should be going where the donors intended is very simplistic.

You're correct, but they should really be up front about it and take the hit in telling people that their donations are going to pay staff salaries in addition to the charity work they do. (don't some charities list the % of each donation that makes it to the intended recipients?)

djpbarry wrote: »

Well, I don't know about Rehab (Group), but most charities are pretty open with their finances. Annual reports are generally published on their website.

But more generally, you’re making the distinction there between “salaries” and “charity work” – surely there is a significant amount of overlap between the two? In fact, it could probably be argued in a lot of cases that expenditure on salaries is expenditure on charity work..[/

When the salary is several hundred thousand and an Audi Jeep as recently reported then it makes people less likely to dip their hands in their pockets. I like to give money to charity when I can and in better times I donated four figure sums to different African aid charities. The next time I see rehabcare collections I will not contribute and the main reason for that is that I have become aware of their organisations layers of bureacracy, i.e. higher and middle managements below the disgraceful Angela Kerins. They seem a resting pot for a type of 'scone eating' brigade from evidence I have seen. The pity as I see it is that there are people who work with disabled people compassionately in Rehabcare and they are the ones who lose out because of this problem.

RainyDay wrote: »

I see an article from Ms Kerins in yesterday's Irish Times supplement titled 'Merging: for good? - Mergers in a fragmented disability sector will help the bid for a caring society'. It doesn't seem to be on the Times website.

The gist of the article is that large = good and small = bad in the disability sector. She tells us that mergers would allow many organisations to 'build capacity, further reduce overheads, share technology and assets'. It seems to be a fairly simplistic and self-serving approach, and it ignores some of the downsides of large organisations, including the kind of outrageous salaries that Ms Kerins takes out of Rehab.

Let me guess, of course she would like to be at the top of such a larger organisation. :rolleyes:
Self serving over paid <snip> would be the description that comes to mind.

RainyDay wrote: »

An update from the UK on overpaid charity bosses;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10224104/30-charity-chiefs-paid-more-than-100000.html

From a quick read of the article, even after sterling conversion, our Angela is still doing better than most of the "overpaid" UK bosses.

If the link to her husbands deal is true, it is very damning.

Any "charity" that can afford to pay it's CEO half a mil shouldn't be getting a penny from the exchequer. I cancelled my DD to the Irish Red Cross following their scandal and tbh I think most "corporate" Irish charities are the same, with the exception proving the rule. They should be ashamed of themselves really taking such a chunk of the funding they receive.