Roger de Weck as expert in Vienna
SRG Director General Roger de Weck weighed in last Wednesday as an international expert in the debate over the organization of the public broadcaster ORF. This has drawn criticism.
In the neighboring country, a dispute is raging over nepotism in the appointment of key ORF positions, as the Sonntagszeitung writes. The reason for this was the editors' complaint against the appointment of journalist Thomas Prantner as ORF online chief, whose position had been created especially for him by an internal patron. In this heated climate, the working group must now draw up reform proposals for the ORF.
The fact that the SRG Director General is now offering himself as an expert abroad is piquant: his company has just completed four difficult rounds of wage negotiations with representatives of its employees. The talks have failed for the time being. SRG employees may find themselves without a collective labor agreement for the first time in years.
SSM Secretary Ernst Gräub is one of those who are disappointed with de Weck. The fact that he is now offering his services as an expert abroad, of all places, makes him shake his head. According to Gräub, de Weck should first and foremost ensure that he can achieve a good social partnership in his own company. FDP media politician Filippo Leutenegger also criticizes the behaviour of the SRG Director General: "In this situation in which the SRG finds itself - keywords: falling market share, convergence - the priority should be on the domestic market," he is quoted as saying in the Sonntagszeitung. And SVP National Councillor Natalie Rickli is surprised that De Weck has time to travel to Vienna as an expert.
Roger de Weck traveled to Vienna by invitation, SRG Head of Communications Iso Rechsteiner told the Sonntagspublikation. It was not a mandate, he also emphasized.
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