Golden parachute for ex-SRG cadre
Former SRG executives who lost their jobs as part of the convergence process are receiving generous severance packages. This is according to an investigation by the newspaper Sonntag.
If continued employment of a management employee was not deemed "opportune, reasonable or possible," there was an immediate release from work with continued payment of salary for six months, Daniel Steiner, media spokesman for SRG's general management, told Sonntag. Those who could show enough years of service were allowed to count on a severance payment amounting to "a maximum of one year's salary." For the former director of Swiss Television, Ueli Haldimann, Sonntag calculates a severance payment of around 330,000 francs. The newspaper could not find out exact figures. One does not comment on individual cases, Steiner said. SRG and the beneficiaries of the social plan have also entered into an obligation of confidentiality regarding the severance modalities. There is no specific budget for severance payments, Steiner added. The SRG spokesman did not want to reveal how many people in total will benefit from the generous severance scheme. He spoke of "individual cases."
