Its patterns of spending suggest high staff turnover and substantial outlays on recruitment, employee education and efforts to reshape the institution’s internal culture and organization
The National Gallery of Canada spent more than $2-million on severance payments over a period of two and a half years, not including payments to four senior staff members let go in the fall, as it parted ways with employees during a push to reorient itself around a new inclusion-focused mission.
The documents lay out all of the gallery’s spending on consultants and outside service providers between April, 2019 and October, 2022. From a total of $10.7-million spent on contracts over that time, $1.4-million went to human resources services, such as recruitment and training, and $1.2-million went to diversity, inclusion and change-management consultants.aside from exhibition costs of $1.3-million.
Victor Rabinovitch, a fellow at the school of policy studies at Queen’s University and a former chief executive of what is now the Canadian Museum of History, said $1-million is a large amount of money for one component of managerial costs at a cultural institution over two and a half years. The documents also show that the gallery’s human resources costs rose over that period. Those things combined suggest a certain momentum to him.
The gallery declined to provide details on the severance payments, on the grounds that they constitute personal information, but it supplied the aggregate total: $2,073,629 paid to former employees over the two and a half yearsThe documents do not include any severance paid to four senior staff members who were dismissed a month later, including the Audain senior curator of Indigenous art, Greg Hill. Mr.
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