Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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Nice to see that there was at least one journalist in RTE who tried to question Tubridy abour his salary.
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Is Rónan still throwing his weight around Ashbourne Golf Club?
How many Holidays is he actually entitled to, for this year? 11 days minimum anyway, but what's he's annual allowance?
Also, you usually have to work up your holidays. While most companies allow you to take your yearly holidays early if needed, not on the week you join the company and start taking your yearly entitlement straight away!!
20 to 21 is minimum holidays in Ireland.
Most well paid people are getting and additional 20 days.
In many companies this exclude Chirstmas Week, so in many cases the average is 25 to 26 days, along with an increment every 2nd year of 1.
Your talking between 40 - 45 days for an executive in RTÉ or any company for that matter.
Salaries general assume your going to return to the office after your break/holiday, you don't generally have to work up holidays.
Kevin B would be entitled to 20 to 25 for this year.
Leo encourages people to pay their TV Licence.
Fcuk off Leo. Must be hard to see your taxpayer sponsored mouthpiece struggling because of their own greed.
I couldn't care less if rte closed in the morning, i havent watched their news since the days of George Lee pulling himself apart over the covid death numbers.
Leo would want to watch his words, being associated with a loser and a losing cause is not good for the old PR..
Be a shame if people started calling Varakar "Leo the Loser". :) It could be worse. He might want Tubridy back on Radio 1. :)
A big problem for RTE is a lot of there fans and Tubridy's are people who have a free license.
Yep
It's more a case of "negotiated" rather than entitled to. Most of the NKM stable appear to have 10-14 weeks off - I tracked Joe Duffy's shows for two years and he took just over 12 weeks off in both years. That was based on working days solely btw, not incl. Bank Holidays etc. Tubridy appears to have a similar arrangement, as do many of the others who host shows with their names on the door so to speak.
There's an ad running on RTE rdaio this past fortnight at least. It concerns some English fella called Jack Whitehall and has a cringy sting about Ron Weasley. Promotion is for some gig organised by Aiken Promotions, he's on for one night in October. Ad is heard frequently, could be 20 times a day easily.
Ceist: How on earth would the returns from this gig pay for all this advertising? And yer man and his entourage and Aiken Promotions.
I'm guessing this ad might be paid through the revealed barter system? So RTE could be giving all these often prime slots to Aiken Promotions are no or very reduced costs by way of barter.
But just what would Aiken Promotions be bartering back to RTE in return?????
Anyone any idea?
Hmmm. Never looked at it that way.
I think you are doing a disservice to all other village celebrities out there, village idiot is more apt.
This will damage FG. Their complete lack of action and reform in the face of waste and corruption has been their trademark since 2011 despite the "New Politics" promises. We shall see people power now and they will be compelled to act.
When Leo makes such statements, they actually serve as an incentive for people to do the opposite.
He's really sneaky though as you can bet that he will be saying to his colleagues: Hmm ok, we shall get it from general taxation so.
Which many here have stated: Will suit Backhurst and RTE.
If they get a handout no questions asked it will backfire badly, but he does say it won't be without conditions and not til later in the year if needs be(?)
I am not sure he would be comfortable reading the morning papers. Many of the headlines will be nothing burger related for months to come.
It really is an absolute doss house isn't it. For completely overpaid cowboys. They were establishment untouchable until now.
"In a statement released yesterday afternoon, Tubridy said that while he had not been in a position up until now to take a reduction in his pay, his “legal situation” had changed in recent days."
Shortly after that, Tubs was announced as the new host of TLLS. I wonder what legal situation had changed. Meanwhile, by 2012 his salary had risen to astronomical levels at €752,950 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rtes-ryan-tubridy-got-100k-loyalty-bonus-k3gs5sjb5
After a quick search https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41169727.html
When Mr Tubridy took the 10% pay cut to which he committed in March 2009, is not immediately obvious.
In 2009 he is recorded as earning €519,667 — a cut of 2.56% on his 2008 pay.
The €645,500 earnings RTÉ declared he earned in 2010 were a 24.2% increase on what the broadcaster said he had been paid in 2009.
Meanwhile, the €723,000 RTÉ said he earned in 2011 was a 12% increase on the previous year.
His career-high earnings of €752,950 in 2012 — the benchmark by which he has referenced his earnings since then — saw an increase of around 4.41% on the previous year.
There is some very creative pay cut dodging going on at rte for years going by this.
But this pay dropped 34.2% to €495,000 in 2013.
Since then, the officially declared earnings for Mr Tubridy have risen by just over 4%, going from €495,000 in both 2013 and 2014, to the latest published amount of €515,000, in 2022.
His statement on Friday that referred to pay cuts he said he had endured over the years was issued after RTÉ admitted paying him €345,000 more than what it had stated publicly.
In its detailed statement, RTÉ said the extra money was paid between 2017 and 2022, and was above his annual published salary.
If we could see how much he actually got paid from 2008 - 2023 per year and in total including any bonuses or hidden payments and were to compare it to his initial 2008 salary with regular pay increases that would have been implemented and without any cuts, I wonder which one would be higher. I do not believe he has ever taken a pay cut there.
Gig tickets for giveaways. Wouldn't be done via a barter account cause there's no requirement to do so as each side has the exact thing the other wants.
They’re still untouchable.
There is literally nothing happening and they are still playing wait and see tactics.
The boss is on holidays ffs. It’s hilarious.
This event should take down the whole organisation or at least wake the people of Ireland up to the abuse (and theft) of their money.
I’m interested to see how it plays out but I expect NOTHING to change fundamentally.
They may throw 1 or 2 people under the bus (could even be RT) to stem the tide of hate/frustration/disgust but nothing will change.
If we want change then the people need to pull back all financial support by not paying their licence fee to that disgusting waste of money.
Any politician coming out in support of RTE and suggesting ‘there will be change’ has lost sight of what the people want and is only interested in their own gain.
I hope the public take the time out of their day to let these politicians know how they feel.
Imagine the company that you work for ask you to take a pay cut, as they are in financial difficulty and you tell them that you won't take a cut but will donate money to charity instead. Then you go off on a big, long spiel about charity. Am surprised that more people didn't see through him at that stage. What an absolute chancer he is. He did everything that he could to turn it back on them and tried to make RTE look bad. He never has had any loyalty to RTE.
Been thinking this over the past while or so
Most people live life within the means of their pay - the more they have the more they spend, the lower paid spend more frugally, the higher paid don't think so much about what things cost
I see Tubs in a predicament where he is used to getting 500k per year and spending accordingly, if that money is cut off, and zero replacing it, his savings will quickly decline - he needs that yearly pay to maintain his life style - this is why he is desperate to get back on the RTE gravy train (because no one else will take him), not because he loves working there (as he says) but because he can't live without that income (seen it many times with other RTE "stars")
He's got probably 30 years ahead of him. maybe more - will all the savings/investments he may have maintain his standard of living, I think not. A million or two in the bank is not much especially considering 5% deflation every year
That's exactly what a barter account is meant to be used for - exchange of goods in one form or another, but usually in that scenario you would be charging the company to advertise/promote on a program and give away free tickets
This has been made abundantly clear that RTE have been giving away free advertising for freebies for themselves
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A bit like the traffic warden who wouldn't legally take a pay rise of 14% and headed off to the WRC and got told to wise up. Bad employers lurking in the grass in every sphere of society. The do not disturb, how dare you interfere in my private life defense is banjoed. I'm having a fab time but its rude to ask millionaires how they made it. If you haven't copped it by now you never will. Im Talented baby
What kind of farcical employment contracts do RTE give out? I'd love to be able to say to my company if they were in a financial hole, 'Sorry, due to my personal, legal situation I can't take a 10% reduction' not even 'I'll leave for another company' just a flat out refusal without RTE being able to do anything!
So after refusing to take a pay cut he got a 24% raise the following year? RTÉ eh? You couldn’t make it up.
Some people did and were rather vocal about it.
