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Remuneration Review Report - 16 June 2006

Progress Report of the Remuneration Review Committee

As of 8th June 2006


The 2005 Council appointed a committee to carry out a wide review of remuneration across Council, and those who contribute to its activities. The initial re-review committee comprised Jennifer Northover (Chair), and David Harris, David Farrar, Nick Wallingford and Peter Macaulay as committee members.

The subsequent retirement of Nick Wallingford from Council led to the appointment of Rodney Prescott as replacement.

The committee met on 11th of May to workshop remuneration principles and their application to personnel associated with, but not employed by, InternetNZ.

Scope of Review

The committee considered remuneration to

  • Councillors
  • Officers
  • Members of subcommittees, working groups and taskforces, including NZOC
  • NZRS

For the purposes of the review, remuneration includes financial and non-financial compensation.

Conflict issues

Conflict issues were discussed, since all members are potentially conflicted in the event recommendations from the review provide benefits.

However since recommendations will go firstly to Council for consideration and thereafter to members it was agreed that conflicts where they exist, are unlikely to influence the final result.

Methodology

For each category of personnel:

  1. Define principles for remuneration.

  2. Apply the principles to derive actual amounts, where applicable.

To date a draft report has been prepared and distributed to the committee.

The review of the draft has not been completed and the detail is not in a sufficiently finalised state to be released to Council for its consideration. It is hoped to have the report completed before the end of June. However an overview of the principles can be provided at this point in time.

Summary of Principles

The following principles will form the basis of the majority of recommendations in the Rem Review report:

  1. Previous work into remuneration over the last 2-3 years identified the “Fees Framework for Members of Statutory and Other Bodies Appointed by the Crown” (the DPMC framework) as the most appropriate framework for setting fees for InternetNZ. We see no reason to change this, and endorse the DPMC as the continuing framework for deriving fees.

  1. NZRS Board of Directors will be bulk-funded, with the full amount apportioned to individuals and the distribution determined by the Board.

  1. NZOC committee members will be paid honoraria based on the DPMC rules. Individual amounts will be proposed for the Chair, the Deputy Chair, and members according to a formula which can be applied in future years if appropriate.

  1. The President and Officers of InternetNZ will be paid honoraria based on the DPMC rules.

  1. The work that Councillors do in preparing and attending Council meetings, and in their substantial work on subcommittees should be recognised in the form of a structure of fees provided on a pro rata basis. The DPMC rules will be the source for deriving these fees.

  1. The sets of honoraria and ‘pro rata’ fees under consideration have been reviewed to ensure a) the total amount payable is reasonable, and b) there is a fair relativity between honoraria receivable by Officers, and fees receivable by Councillors taking into account the responsibilities and contributions to InternetNZ in each case.

Other details need to be worked through before these can be outlined. Additional time is needed to ensure all the members of Rem Review are satisfied with the content of the detailed report before it will be released to Council.

Recommendations

That Council receives this progress report of the Rem Review taskforce.

Jennifer Northover
Chair
Rem-Review taskforce



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