The implementation of the new salary system at the national public broadcaster “Teleradio-Moldova” does not run smoothly owing to management faults and the resistance put up by the salary earners. Such a conclusion was formulated in a news conference at IPN by experts of the Electronic Press Association APEL, who during eight months monitored the reforms done at “Teleradio-Moldova” within a project financed by Soros Foundation Moldova.

APEL head Vasile State said that three years ago the company’s administration decided to replace the old salary system with a new one designed to stimulate professional performance, the initiative being welcomed by experts of the Association. However, the administration didn’t obey the implementation terms and avoided imposing penalties for remedying the situation. As a result, the new salary system is implemented with delay at some of the structural subdivisions.

According to the APEL experts, though the company’s Supervisory Board examined the situation in the field, it often wasn’t consistent in its decisions and didn’t appropriately supervise the implementation of the new salary system at the public broadcaster.

Within the project, APEL made three case studies of the quality of the internal normative framework on the new salary system, of the quality of the decisions taken by the company’s administration and of the implementation of the new salary system at two structural subdivisions.

According to expert Cornelui Rusnac, the managers at Radio Moldova took the measures needed to impellent all the stages of the salary reform. However, at TV Moldova 1 the measures were insufficient and/or taken with delay and the new system wasn’t fully implemented.

APEL supervised the management of reforms at “Teleradio-Moldova” within the project “Monitoring the implementation of the new salary system at “Teleradio-Moldova” Company as a key element in ensuring reforms” that is supported by the Mass Media Program of Soros Foundation Moldova.