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    Sir Michael Lyons said: "Of course I realise this will have implications both for current and future BBC employees. However, it is right that as a major public service organisation, the BBC shows leadership on this issue during difficult economic times." Full Article at Times Online
    Of course I realise this will have implications both for current and future BBC employees. However, it is right that as a major public service organisation, the BBC shows leadership on this issue during difficult economic times.
    – Michael Lyons (politician) SOURCE: Times Online 3 weeks ago
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BBC to cut 20 per cent of managers' jobs and freeze executive pay
  1. This review has identified a few areas where internal relativities and the desire to ensure that senior pay is broadly comparable in different parts of the organisation has lead to pay rising above the median of the specific labour market involved.
    SOURCE: Times Online 3 weeks ago
  2. For every senior manager job that comes up there will have to be a really strong case for us to appoint one. Instead we will be asking people to work two jobs.
    SOURCE: Times Online 3 weeks ago
  3. We are in a different economic climate; media sector labour markets are depressed and there are pressures on public finances.
    SOURCE: Times Online 3 weeks ago
  4. If the BBC is able to cut over 100 of its senior executives, it needs to ask how it allowed itself to get so bloated in the first place.
    SOURCE: Times Online 3 weeks ago

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