Compensation

I couldn’t agree more with John Chadwick’s comment. The old term “allowances” applied more or less democratically and transparently across the board to all Reuters staff from senior managers and administrative staff to journalists and technicians posted to countries outside their home base. It covered items like housing, education for one’s children, occasional home leave, special clothing for extreme climates, etc - all of which have been, or are in the process of being, abolished across the new US-based company. Now we have an opaque terminology that allows a select few, chosen on an untransparent basis, to benefit from hefty additions to salaries already well out of line with those of the vast majority of TR staff, and the amount of which is determined by considerations of “inconvenience” suffered in their already highly-rewarded posts. ■