Recruiter tells parliamentary inquiry she received an email in which Stephen Cartwright claimed his expenses would be ‘taken care of’
fill a senior government trade job in London
Brown has previously described a “protracted” and “difficult” contract negotiation with Cartwright who, she said, seemed to believe he had an “elevated status” and an “eye-watering” salary expectation of about $800,000. After he was selected as the new preferred candidate in late March 2021, Broadbent told the inquiry she commenced salary negotiations with Cartwright.
“Apart from improving the base salary package he indicated that he and the Treasurer had reached an agreement that the cost of suitable family accommodation in an inner suburb of London could be taken care of by the NSW govt outside of the Salary package,” Cartwright wrote.
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