At the end of the service of his notice year, and for 4 years (until the legal pension), the director general will continue to receive part of his salary at BX1, in addition to an unemployment allowance.
The operation represents for BX1, according to the report of the board of directors that Free was able to consult, a total cost of 550,000 euros gross. The granting of this “golden parachute” of more than half a million euros had then caused certain reluctance, with several administrators.
“Some mentioned the fact that it was public money, and that BX1 could not afford to pay this (Editor’s note: the BX1 budget amounts to some 7 million euros, including 5 million Cocofing subsidies). But they were quickly minorized “, Slides an ex-administrator.
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The sixth member of BX1 to benefit from it
This is “of a proven system “can we read in the report of the BX1 board of directors, since five staff members, one of which has already benefited from this extralegal prepension which has the advantage of being less expensive than a conventional dismissal.
“I have my personal reasons to leave. The board of directors validated my request unanimously. He will be beneficial for BX1 that someone takes over”.
“This extralegal prepentive system consists in promoting the departure of elderly workers, because it is interesting to replace them with younger people. It is not problematic, reacts Marc de Haan, managing director of BX1. “”These are good governance practices, which have already benefited several people internally. It is a workers’ right to receive notice. I do not see why I, who runs this company for 70 people for 20 years, would have less rights than another employee. “
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The nuance, in this case, is that it is Marc de Haan himself who submitted to the board of directors a request aimed at being able to go in prepension. And not the reverse. “”I have my personal reasons to leave. The board of directors validated my request unanimously. He will be beneficial for BX1 that someone takes over “, he underlines.
The arguments leave Eric Carlier, specialist in labor law, perplexed. “The granting of an extralegal prepension, it is a double flower that makes the company. Primo, because it grants a notice indemnity that she should not pay to a resigning person. Second, because he pays an extralegal prepension, that an employer is in principle not obliged to pay. In addition, as it is a disguised resignation in dismissal, the person will not benefit from unemployment benefits. due in the event of dismissal. “
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Two candidates, including Fabrice Grosfilley, dismissed
The succession of Marc de Haan constitutes another thorny file, while the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation has just announced a reduction in the number of proximity media for budgetary reasons. And if BX1 is not directly concerned (because funded by the Cocof), everyone understands that it is better not to make a wave…
Waves, however, there were, last Friday, during the BX1 board of directors, at the agenda of which was the appointment of a new director. Or rather, from a director, since the name of Annebel Joseph, legal advisor stationed at BX1 since last June, was the only one proposed.
Two other people, however, had candidates for this position, who had not been opened to external applications: Fabrice Grosfilley, the chief editorialist, and Marc de Pauw, the financial director.
In practice, the three candidates were indeed submitted to an assessment (evaluation), as well as to the evaluation of a jury.
The legal advisor, passed by Voo, Orange, was the only one to receive a positive opinion, at the end of the process.
Both Fabrice Grosfilley and Marc de Pauw paid, in particular, managerial experience deemed insufficient. Annebel Joseph’s lack of experience in the media sector has not, however, been deemed unacceptable.
In a letter sent to Marc de Haan on May 9, the BX1 journalists’ company had nevertheless pushed the candidacy of a journalist by pointing out the importance of appointing a person endowed “of a deep understanding of journalistic issues. “
During the meeting, several administrators have denounced an attempt from the management of BX1 to impose a candidacy for the CA. They demanded that they could audition the other two candidates, in order to regain control of the process. Some, of which Marc de Haan, opposed it, arguing of the need not to politicize the designation. Part of the members of the board of directors are indeed appointed by the parties. The candidacy selected by the jury was ultimately not validated. It will be auditioned at a later meeting, before a decision is made.
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