Any exit scheme at the broadcaster, even voluntary, would risk making it look like ‘ordinary workers’ were paying unfair price
The Government is doing such a consistent job of distancing itself from the prospect of redundancies at RTÉ that it is still not completely clear if there will be any.
This €40 million in emergency funding, a replacement for lost licence fee income, is contingent on Minister for Media Catherine Martin being “happy”, as she put it, with Bakhurst’s strategic plan for RTÉ. She also said it would not be for her to “interfere” were Bakhurst to reduce funding for RTÉ's local and European election and party conference coverage as part of a package of cuts.
If the Government signs off on a plan that includes a voluntary redundancy scheme, it risks coming across like it thinks it is a justifiable consequence of a €345,000 underdeclaration of pay to presenter Ryan Tubridy – plus a mishmash of other corporate governance issues – to give the okay to job losses. That could look a little unusual. And unfair.
The broadcaster’s director of human resources Eimear Cusack, told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee on Thursday that there were 184 applications to its 2021 voluntary exit scheme, yet only 25 employees were “released”. This was for a scheme where the target initially made public was for 60-70 people to leave.
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