Susan Wood and her ego

[Lou Girardin]

A pyrrhic victory. TVNZ got spanked for lack of consultation with Ms Wood. The Authority noted that her contract expires at the end of the year and that her current $450,000 salary was crass and vulgar. No ruling was made on costs.

Not quite. They'll now need a very good reason to not renew her contract. If they don't, it'll just compound their image problems and result in even lower ratings.
Which will cost them far more than the $150,000 that they're fighting over.

[ManDownUnder]

Not quite. They'll now need a very good reason to not renew her contract. If they don't, it'll just compound their image problems and result in even lower ratings.
Which will cost them far more than the $150,000 that they're fighting over.

you mean the $150k per year they're fighting for...

big diff, and aftyer 6 months the NZ public won't care anyway. Swap in a session of the naked news, ratings go through the roof, pay the people in question $80k/year each and Bob's your Aunt's favourite boyfriend

[jrandom]

The Authority noted that her contract expires at the end of the year...

they also noted that no apparent reason existed behind this expiry date, and that the relevant clause was probably null and void, ie, she should expect to continue on as a permanent employee, with contract renewal presumably being automatic.

ah, employee protectionism enshrined in law; the reason why the hounds of hell themselves couldn't drag me into being an employer in NZ.

[Lou Girardin]

you mean the $150k per year they're fighting for...

big diff, and aftyer 6 months the NZ public won't care anyway.

They seem to be caring now, ratings are in freefall. Strangely enough since my mate Bill started.
Besides, she's a bargain compared to Holmes and that woman that used to read the news. You know the one, the Mother of the Nation.

[TwoSeven]

Read the whole thing then.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10354039

Sometimes it pays to read things carefully. I picked up from the original post that the Judge implied it [the salary] was vulgar etc. However, the quote is as follows

Mr Robinson said ordinary New Zealanders found it very difficult to comprehend the salaries of the magnitude paid to presenters.

"There is a view that such salaries are extreme, extravagant and even obscene."

This actually means that the judge is stating an opinion on what he thinks ordenary NZrs think. Thats completely different from what was stated in the previous post.

Its called chineese whispers.

[Pixie]

They seem to be caring now, ratings are in freefall. Strangely enough since my mate Bill started.
Besides, she's a bargain compared to Holmes and that woman that used to read the news. You know the one, the Mother of the Nation.

Speaking of Bill:I didn't realise how unoriginal and plagiaristic NZ TV could be,until I saw the McLaughlin Group on a TriangleTV PBS feed.
It seems that this is the template for The Ralston Group or some years ago on TV3.
The ridiculous thing was Ralston even tried to copy McLaughlin's idiosyncratic
farewell on each episode.
And when they copied the Weakest Link- they got Louise Wallace to dye her hair red because the bint on the original pommy series had red hair-we know how the weakest links are.

[Lou Girardin]

ah, employee protectionism enshrined in law; the reason why the hounds of hell themselves couldn't drag me into being an employer in NZ.

Yeah, let's return to the good old days of unfettered capitalism. When you could force children to work 14 hour shifts in the mines and sack anyone at anytime for anything.

[jrandom]

Yeah, let's return to the good old days of unfettered capitalism. When you could force children to work 14 hour shifts in the mines and sack anyone at anytime for anything.

I strongly support employee protectionism, the same way I strongly support the necessity for professional toilet-unblockers.

I just wouldn't ever want to be involved with the pointy end of either.

[TwoSeven]

I thought it was good that an employer finally got caught out trying to screw an employee over. Good on her for sorting that mess of a company out.

[Lou Girardin]

I strongly support the necessity for professional toilet-unblockers.

I just wouldn't ever want to be involved with the pointy end of either.

So you're bigger than a Goldfish then?

[jrandom]

So you're bigger than a Goldfish then?

too small to eat, too big to flush.

[Hitcher]

too small to eat, too big to flush.

The Koi carp of Kiwibiker.

[Lou Girardin]

too small to eat.

You must live a disappointed life.

[Biff]

You must live a disappointed life.

She wouldn't know. She has a memory span of around 8 seconds.

[Lou Girardin]

She wouldn't know. She has a memory span of around 8 seconds.

That'd be why they jump back on the hook.