No one at RTÉ, including their most well known presenters such as Miriam O’Callaghan above, will be paid more than the CEO’s salary under the maximum pay cap set under a new strategic vision for the broadcaster, a staff meeting has heard, reports RTE.
Social media users have been quite sarcastic about the announcements with comments such as “how will they survive”.
The agency’s new strategic vision says pay will be cut “as contracts expire… and by reviewing and reducing allowances”.
The plan, announced by Director General Kevin Bakhurst, also said the broadcaster cut the salaries of RTÉ’s highest-paid presenters.
Mr Buckhurst said RTÉ would become a smaller organization over the next five years but the role it played in Irish life would not diminish.
The agency’s new strategic vision, published this afternoon, outlines that staffing at the station will be cut by 20%, or 400 people, over the period, reports RTE.
Forty posts funded by the sale of land at the Donnybrook campus in 2017 will soon be made redundant.
Staff reductions will be made through normal attrition and retirement processes, as well as through a voluntary redundancy program, specifically aimed at reducing the number of employees with salaries above EUR 100,000, reports RTE.
However, the strategy assumes that targeted recruitment will continue at the company.
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