WRC rules against journalist
The worker was earning some €84,630 a year as a multimedia journalist with an additional allowance for duties as chief subeditor. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins DublinA journalist with an “extraordinary sense of entitlement and a huge sense of self-importance” is already “well compensated” for his on-air work, a tribunal has decided.
He had claimed that because he was on-air doing “newscasting” work, he ought to be promoted to either a newscaster, or an assistant editor. He also contended he was “entitled to additional compensation” for his work on a particular project he had been involved with since 2010.
The employer countered that the worker’s grade, “multimedia journalist”, included the reading of radio bulletins as a job requirement. Other workers employed at that grade did nothing other than read radio bulletins while working to a roster, the WRC was told. Mr O’Neill wrote that the move by the employer to incur a cost of €100,000 making certain allowances pensionable, meant the journalist was “more than adequately compensated for his work on the project”.
Mr O’Neill added: “I recommend both that the worker carefully reflects on my analysis above and recognises, as well as accepts both that he has been compensated more than appropriately.”
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