[ga] ICANN Employment Policies and Procedures

["Prophet Partners Inc." <Domains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eric,

According to ICANN Employment Policies and Procedures dated November 1, 1999, the employee limitation on accepting / giving gifts is:

7. Accepting or seeking anything of more than nominal value from a customer or supplier without the advance approval of management, or giving a gift to a customer or supplier without management approval, except for certain promotional "premiums" (such as T-shirts or coffee mugs) imprinted with the ICANN logo or information;

Complete ICANN Employment Policies and Procedures dated November 1, 1999 (some sections have been revised)
http://www.icann.org/legal/auerbach-v-icann/icann-employment-policies-02aug02.pdf
Fraud
http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=e6a603a2&page=22&size=full

Note than these are only ICANN's Employment Policies and Procedures. Whether the rules are enforced or not is another matter.

These documents certainly deserve more scrutiny, including sections such as:

Business Expenses 
http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=e6a603a2&page=4&size=full
and Conflicts of Interest
http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=e6a603a2&page=10&size=full

"Reimbursement of expenses of the President requires approval of the Board. The Vice-President and General Counsel may authorize payment to the President of an advance, not to exceed US $20,000 at any time, toward expenses already incurred by the President but not yet authorized by the Board, with the expenses to be later approved by the Board (or an authorized Committee of the Board)." What's the point of setting a limit, if the value is an astronomical figure. With a $20,000 limit on travel expenses, ICANN might as well eliminate the price cap as they are trying to do with the proposed .biz/.info/.org registry agreements. 

"Reimbursement of business class fares is authorized for airline trips of greater than 5 hours duration." is overly generous and a waste of money. If employees want business class fares, they should pay the difference out of their own pocket.

Sincerely,
Ted
Prophet Partners Inc.
http://www.ProphetPartners.com
http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hugh Dierker 
  To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [ga] Re: Performance of ICANN Staff as Measured by ICANN's Core Values


  What is the maximum size of a gift to a staff member that does not need to be reported?  Also I would like to know the benefits provided to staff and the BoD.
  Anyone know?

  e

  Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx> wrote:
    On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:24:31AM -0400,
    Prophet Partners Inc. wrote 
    a message of 199 lines which said:

    > that is the way things usually work in the real world. 
    ...
    > Those who do their jobs poorly get demoted, cuts in pay or the pink
    > slip.

    This is not "the real world", it is an extremely US-centric view of
    human resources management. In many countries, the real world behaves
    differently.

    > In today's news, Patricia Dunn faced the consequences of her bad
    > decisions at top Fortune 500 company Hewlett-Packard (ranked
    > #11). H-P's BoD forced Dunn to step down as Chairwoman, due to her
    > faulty decision to use illegal methods,

    Using illegal method is not "a bad decision", it is trespassing. She
    should be judged for that, not just forced to resign.





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