NIK strikes out at lavish rewards given to management of public media

The latest Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) report on salaries in public media management and supervisory boards has revealed that in many state-owned companies private needs of managers are fulfilled in many different ways. While working in them presidents and members of boards had been travelling abroad, had long sick leaves or were taking additional jobs in order to earn as much as quickly as possible. In Radio Lodz, which suffered zl. 700,000 in losses in 1997, the supervisory board had decided to give bonuses to their members amounting to zl. 10,000-zl. 12,000 with no concern to the negative opinion of the shareholders. Salaries of Telewizja Polska management board members amounted to over zl. 38,000 per month in 1999. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 8) M.M.