Intxaurrondo wins against RTVE and recovers €254,000 annually
The courts annul RTVE's salary cut for Silvia Intxaurrondo: she will recover conditions amounting to €254,000 per year.
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Intxaurrondo wins against RTVE: €254,000 per year back
RTVE loses in court, and the bill resets to square one. Silvia Intxaurrondo will recover economic conditions amounting to approximately €254,000 annually, according to the ruling reported by El Mundo. The courts have declared void RTVE's decision to reduce her salary when their working relationship changed. This move, initially presented as a reorganization, is now costing the treasury a judgment.
What the courts decided and what it amounts to
The lawsuit was filed a year ago, after RTVE modified the contract terms. The ruling voids that decision and obliges the journalist to return to conditions similar to those she had before the cut. Translated into salary terms: around €254,000 a year—a figure that turns the adjustment into an expenditure greater than the saving originally intended.
The origin: when 'La hora de La 1' became an in-house production
The conflict didn't begin this week. It dates back more than three years, when the program started being produced in-house. This change—from an external producer to an internal production—was used to renegotiate the contract downwards. The courts have deemed that salary reduction void.
Salary and public money: why it is debated
Part of the analysis holds that €254,000 annually paid with public money is indefensible, regardless of who receives it. Another viewpoint suggests the problem isn't the salary itself, but the criterion by which the corporation reorganizes its staff and then loses in court. The conversation quickly escalated to a larger issue: the role of RTVE. The proposal to close the corporation has resurfaced, and its most common rebuttal came from a studio: “Before, they suggested closing Ciudadanos.”
Furthermore, an accounting question remains unresolved: if the remuneration is channeled through a self-employed status or an instrumental company, taxation changes.
With the judgment in hand, RTVE will have to reconstruct a contract that she herself broke. The question is no longer how much a presenter earns, but how many more contracts in the company are awaiting their own judgment.
RTVE loses in court, and the bill resets to square one. Silvia Intxaurrondo will recover economic conditions amounting to approximately €254,000 annually, according to the ruling reported by El Mundo. The courts have declared void RTVE's decision to reduce her salary when their working relationship changed. This move, initially presented as a reorganization, is now costing the treasury a judgment.
What the courts decided and what it amounts to
The lawsuit was filed a year ago, after RTVE modified the contract terms. The ruling voids that decision and obliges the journalist to return to conditions similar to those she had before the cut. Translated into salary terms: around €254,000 a year—a figure that turns the adjustment into an expenditure greater than the saving originally intended.
The origin: when 'La hora de La 1' became an in-house production
The conflict didn't begin this week. It dates back more than three years, when the program started being produced in-house. This change—from an external producer to an internal production—was used to renegotiate the contract downwards. The courts have deemed that salary reduction void.
Salary and public money: why it is debated
Part of the analysis holds that €254,000 annually paid with public money is indefensible, regardless of who receives it. Another viewpoint suggests the problem isn't the salary itself, but the criterion by which the corporation reorganizes its staff and then loses in court. The conversation quickly escalated to a larger issue: the role of RTVE. The proposal to close the corporation has resurfaced, and its most common rebuttal came from a studio: “Before, they suggested closing Ciudadanos.”
Furthermore, an accounting question remains unresolved: if the remuneration is channeled through a self-employed status or an instrumental company, taxation changes.
With the judgment in hand, RTVE will have to reconstruct a contract that she herself broke. The question is no longer how much a presenter earns, but how many more contracts in the company are awaiting their own judgment.
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