The mandate of Rosa María Mateo to the front of RTVE as an administrator only provisional sum a new controversy on account of the latest recruitments in the public corporation, after the controversial wave of stoppages that led to nothing more access to the charge. The Platform for a RTVE Free has issued a statement in which he denounced “the unjustifiable and excessive number of contracts recent” carried out in a period that is supposed to transition to the wait of that is under the new Board of Directors.
According to exposed platform on your note, since the month of August there have been “more than 100 contracts, of which more than 40 are informants with destination to different news programmes of RTVE”.
Sources in the direction of RTVE consulted by this newspaper supported those 100 contracts, but nuanced some points: “Only 20 are informative TVE and only 14 correspond to informants”. Stand out, in addition, that 11 of those contracts are temporary and belong to staff who had already worked in RTVE in the previous periods, so that refuse any kind of ideological bias in hiring. Also emphasize that “in the news there is currently no directors hired externally”, in allusion to what was happening in the previous stage with Jose Antonio Sanchez as president.
The address of the public corporation in particular that between the of 6,600 workers, 10% of those hired are temporary, a rate which, according to guarantee, “has remained constant” before and after the arrival of Rosa María Mateo.
The Platform for a RTVE-Free complaint, however, that Rosa María Mateo “has shot” the hiring at the same time that they have been “removed and dismissed many professional”. For this reason, appeals to the Council news -independent representation of workers and trade unions, to demand explanations. In its press release, the platform is very critical with them, the reproaches that in the past, “labeled as a wording parallel to 11 contracts agency staff”, and asks “why keep silent now”.
Sources of the Council of Informational consulted by this newspaper, refused to answer publicly to the Platform by a RTVE-Free because, according to stress, “have no representation”, at the same time that they regretted that they remain in anonymity: “When someone remains in the shadow is because he has something to hide. We don’t even know how many there are”, point. However, on the merits of the complaint stated: “with Respect to the recent hires we have not seen any threat to the editorial independence of the corporation, which is what prompted us to report in the previous stage when it is attempted to form a drafting parallel, to do what the drafters of the template were not willing to do.”
The Committee of Experts of the public contest of RTVE hopes to complete the evaluation of the 95 candidates to the Board of Directors of RTVE in the first week of December, and from then on, the Parliament will have to proceed to the election of directors. End then the stage management of Rosa María Mateo as an administrator, provisional only.
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