TVP broke employment contracts over inflated bonuses to management board

According to the latest investigation by the Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) on public television TVP, payments to members of the management board totalled zl. 1 million in 2000, which accounts for 10% of the net profit TVP achieved that year. In March 2000, three weeks after Parliament decided to drastically curb the salaries of the top management in state-owned companies, TVP's supervisory board granted its management very high monthly bonuses accounting for 45% of their base salaries. The bonuses were paid for 9 months. NIK pointed out the employment contracts stated that the bonuses should account for no more than 25% of the base salary. In total, the amount of the bonuses paid was around zl. 214,000 higher than that envisaged by the employment contracts. During the previous inspection NIK revealed that for 1999 TVP 's president Robert Kwiatkowski earned zl. 547,000 including bonuses and the four remaining management board members each earned zl. 436,000. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.Z.