Dismissed ministers cash in on redundancies
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
12.06.2015 11:45
The nine politicians who were relieved of their duties in PM Ewa Kopacz’s purge earlier this week can still count on receiving substantial redundancy packages.
Photo: thenews.pl/Roberto Galea
A law dating back to July 1981 regulates the salaries of top government and parliamentary positions, including procedures for when the politicians finish their term or dismissed from their posts.
If the politicians in question have served for more than a year in their respective posts – which holds true in the case of the ministers – then they are still paid for three months, with the caveat that they do not find other employment in the meantime.
However, if any new job is paid less than the ministerial salary, then they are eligible for a top-up salary to match the equivalent of their previous earnings in government.
Since all the politicians this week – bar Rafał Baniak – are also MPs, then they are still able to take home their gross parliamentary pay of over PLN 12,000 plus the eligible top-ups.
Jacek Rostowski, who worked as chief advisor to PM Kopacz, is not eligible for any redundancy pay as he fulfilled the role on a voluntary basis.
Taking the calculations into account, Rafał Baniak is eligible for the most redundancy pay to over PLN 30,000 for the three months, with other ministers taking home between around PLN 5,000 and PLN 6,000 gross total for the next three months. (jb)
Source: TVNBiŚ