KiwiRail boss gets $500k on the way out

KiwiRail boss gets $500k on the way out
KiwiRail has lost 47 executives and tier 2 and 3 managers since May 2019. (Image: Getty)
Oliver Lewis
Despite his abrupt departure midway through an independent workplace probe, the KiwiRail board agreed to pay its former chief executive for his full six-month notice period.Greg Miller earned a base salary of about $1 million in the 2021 financial year (not including a post-year incentive payment understood to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars), meaning he would have been paid about $500,000 for the notice period he didn’t work out.The controversial former executive, who was appointed to the role in May 2019 following his tenure a...

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