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Former RBB director Schlesinger
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There are new allegations against the recalled RBB director Patricia Schlesinger.
The main focus here is on Schlesinger's personnel policy, including payments to employees who have left the company.
A research team from RBB and the online medium "Business Insider" report on a manager who supposedly left the advertising subsidiary RBB Media in 2018 and who continues to receive a salary.
The RBB team estimates the payments already made to be more than 300,000 euros, and payments of more than 700,000 are planned by August 2026.
It goes on to write about the employee: "According to information from the RBB research team, he still formally occupies a permanent position there and is even on the vacation plan."
"Business Insider" reports, citing accounting documents, of several cases in which allegedly retired RBB employees are said to continue to receive a salary.
At the request of the medium, RBB referred to a confidentiality agreement and did not provide any further information.
The online medium also addresses the remaining list of management, which is now responsible for the station after Schlesinger's departure due to numerous allegations.
Administrative Director Hagen Brandstätter has recently been appointed Managing Director, his position as Administrative Director has been taken over by Human Resources Manager Sylvie Deléglise, who is said to have had something to do with severance pay rules – as has Legal Director Susann Lange.
According to Business Insider, the two women are said to be married to each other.
Both now sit together on the executive board.
The RBB emphasized that the relationship between the management and the committee chairmen was known.
According to information from SPIEGEL and in accordance with the "Business Insider" report, Deléglise disclosed the marriage to Lange on Thursday at a works meeting.
The two were therefore married by the chairwoman of the RBB broadcasting council, the evangelical theologian Frederike von Kirchbach.
The RBB spokesman told the online medium that Deléglise was involved in the development of the bonus system in her previous role.
"The initiative for this did not come from her, but from the board of directors." The RBB informed the news agency dpa that the initiative had actually come from the chairman of the board of directors, Wolf-Dieter Wolf.
Like Schlesinger, the resigned chief inspector has been accused of nepotism for weeks.
Both rejected them.
The Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating, and an external investigation into a law firm is also underway.
The HR department is also entrusted with the final evaluation of target achievement, the RBB informed the "Business Insider".
The management only disclosed the bonus system and the top salaries after massive public and internal pressure.
Brandstäter then announced that bonuses would not be used this year and said that the board of directors would like to see an end to variable payments altogether.
The RBB board of directors wants to meet on Monday to decide on the termination of Schlesinger's contract.
The question of severance pay will then also be discussed there.
fdi/dpa