Hefty salaries for Ontario's highest paid civil servants channeled thru Hospital

[GAP]

Ploy fattens bureaucrat pay
October 06, 2009 Tanya Talaga
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Hefty salaries for some of Ontario's highest paid civil servants – including the deputy health minister, who earned nearly $500,000 last year in salary and taxable benefits – are being channelled through hospitals to skirt government pay guidelines, the Star has learned.

As Premier Dalton McGuinty's administration clamps down on untendered contracts and consultants' meal expenses in the wake of the eHealth Ontario spending scandal, salaries for top bureaucrats are being buried in hospital budgets.

The premier's hand-picked climate change adviser, Hugh MacLeod, was paid $320,695.60 last year by University Health Network, according to the government's public sector salary disclosure documents.

Deputy health minister Ron Sapsford earns a salary of $433,611.55 plus $64,781.35 in taxable benefits through the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre.

Gail Paech, an associate deputy minister of economic development and trade and a former senior health bureaucrat, was paid $291,997.20 by University Health Network last year.

The salaries are well above the maximum $220,150 recommended for deputy ministers and the range of $146,700 to $188,950 for associate and assistant deputies.
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[PMedMoe]

So where does one go to apply for these jobs?    : 

 

[mariomike]

They are on the Sunshine List:
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2009/

 

[dapaterson]

The issue is one of transparency - moving salaries to other organizations smacks of having something to hide.

One (reasonably) assumes hospital salaries are tied to, oh, health care and not the environment.

 

[PuckChaser]

So where does one go to apply for these jobs?    : 

https://www.liberal.ca/membership_E.aspx  ???

 

[The Bread Guy]

Interesting....

Funny how the DM Health's salary/benefits showed up on HHSC's list last year and the year before, and the year before that but nobody questioned it before.

Not saying it was right then, but just sayin....

BTW, here's his link to HHSC in yellow:

Ron Sapsford

Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Government of Ontario

Mr. Sapsford was appointed Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, effective March 1, 2005. Most recently, Mr. Sapsford was the executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation. He has also held positions as the Assistant Deputy Minister of Institutional and Community Services for the Ministry of Health and chief operating officer with the Ontario Hospital Association. In addition to his extensive experience in the health care field, he is an active contributor to the profession through teaching and committee work. Mr. Sapsford holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a master of health administration from the University of Ottawa.

 

[mariomike]

Funny how the DM Health's salary/benefits showed up on HHSC's list last year and the year before, and the year before that but nobody questioned it before.

It's an interesting list. There was some concern when TTC Collectors started to show up on it! 

 

[Poseur]

https://www.liberal.ca/membership_E.aspx  ???

Then does one apply for an equally insanely compensated job in Alberta by joining the Conservative Party?

(Also, you should have linked to the Libs of Ont, if you were going to make that joke. Just as I should have called it the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta.)

This kind of crap happens everywhere, even Alberta:

Paddy Meade, the former executive operating officer of Alberta Health Services, who was let go in a reorganization in the spring, was paid $1.3 million for nine months on the job — the equivalent of two years' salary and benefits. A $257,500 bonus was included in the payout.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/10/02/edmonton-alberta-october-auditor-general.html

:-[

 

[The Bread Guy]

Hmmmm, given the resignation of the Health Minister over the Ontario Auditor General's assessment of the Electronic Health Record fracas, is there a case to be made that reporters may have been helped to find the "lookit how the health DM's getting paid!!!" story to distract a bit from (what is now) the centre ring of the circus?  Especially since the story's been there ever since the health DM took office several years ago?

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Freakin' Libranos. Fuggedaboudit, we'll just ban something to take your mind off of it :.

Time for them to go.

 

[Rifleman62]

Another Lieliberal government Ponzi scheme just like the gun registry, HRDC boondoggle, etc. A billion dollars of health care funding flushed. If we take white collar Ponzi scheme creater to court, why not the politicians (of all parties) and their friends.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

It's an interesting list. There was some concern when TTC Collectors started to show up on it! 

There is/was no concern, the Govt. would rather pay a ton of overtime rather than hire enough people to do the job. It saves on the benefit factor.

...and am I the only one who thinks that its time for some charges to be laid in this whole mess?

Recceguy, sorry my friend but the Tories under Mike Harris had more "adviser's" than anyone, this isn't just a "Liberal" thing.

 

[DBA]

Moving non-health related expenses to the health balance sheet and pretending the increase is to improve the health system is deceitful. Even more so after saying no new taxes but adding a health tax that now must be partially going to non-health areas so is at least in part a general tax.