Key issues raised by staff included gender inequality, a lack of communication and friction between colleagues working on the same programmes.
A REVIEW INTO the culture and working relationships within the Current Affairs Unit of RTÉ has found that staff feel a “lack of transparency” relating to how management decisions are made and that women are perceived as having less opportunities than male colleagues.
The Resolve Ireland report was commissioned following a specific grievance lodged by an NUJ member and is unrelated to the ongoing controversy over undisclosed payments to Ryan Tubridy. The report noted that the issues discussed in anonymous interviews were accepted at face value and that no one was asked to provide proof in support of the comments made.
‘Fear of consequences for speaking up’ The report noted that many members of the CA unit had been on freelance contracts with RTÉ and after achieving job permanency there were a “wide variety” of contracts put in place leading to “perceptions of inequity and unfair application of terms and conditions”.
“There was a definite sense that a lot of people in Current Affairs had reached a point of feeling defeated by the current situation,” the review stated.
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