In the course of the RBB crisis, the ARD houses are making more details about their salary structures visible. In the coming year, on the joint website for remuneration, “regulations on pensions and the salary structure for non-tariff employees will also be presented,” said ARD at the request of the German Press Agency.
Since 2015, the public ARD broadcasters have been publishing transparency information on the joint website. There you can find information about the salaries of broadcaster bosses, for example.
The director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), Karola Wille, reported on the results of the director’s meeting in November in Munich at the MDR broadcasting council meeting in Leipzig on Monday and mentioned the expansion of the ARD transparency area with regard to the consequences of the RBB crisis.
In the affair at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) about felt allegations, the remuneration system for executives also came into focus there. A bonus system, which has since been abolished, and so-called pension regulations are controversial. This means that managers are entitled to money even if they no longer work for the station but are not yet of retirement age.
