Cause for despair

What bright spark in the CPS dreamt this one up? And what idiot approved it? The Daily Mail reports:

Hundreds of public sector workers have been handed £250 each simply for turning up to work after heavy snow.
At a cost of £56,000 to the taxpayer, Crown Prosecution staff were rewarded for making it into the office on February 2 when London and the South East were paralysed by the Big Freeze.