Deal of the day

Here's a clip from LBC on the FOI news (in fairness, I think, uncovered by The Telegraph) that 539 BBC staff have left the organisation over the past five years under compromise agreements (in tabloid-speak, "gagging orders") worth a total of £28 million.

A standard clause was that you don't tell anyone how much you got in your exit deal. This, to many personnel officers, was more important that anything else in the compromise agreement  - they were very nervous about establishing "going rates" (see what I did there ?) that could set new levels of demand from senior staff and their advisers. Some would say they failed.

listen to ‘LBC Reporter Doorsteps BBC Director General Over £22m Gagging Clauses’ on Audioboo

Prizes for identifying the mystery voice.