Former RPP members await court decision on unpaid wages

The court case of six members of the Monetary Policy Council (RPP), who have been demanding settlement of compensation due from the National Bank of Poland (NBP) since the case first went to court in June of 2001, is expected to end on January 14. Boguslaw Grabowski, Cezary Jozefiak, Jerzy Pruski, Dariusz Rosati, Grzegorz Wojtowicz and Wieslawa Ziolkowska hope to receive zl. 325,000 each to cover their wages due from August 1998 to July 2001. All RPP members received zl. 25,840 as a monthly salary, whereas the NBP Act states that they should receive as much as deputy heads of the Bank, which amounts to over zl. 35,000 a month. NBP representatives maintain that RPP members are not employees of the Bank, but civil servants and as such have no entitlement to such a wage. (Rzeczpospolita, p. C1) A.K.