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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