Illegal appointments to posts in the Ministry of the Interior have cost taxpayers a lot of money. In the past twelve years, a total of approximately 500,000 euros in damages have been paid and another 140,000 euros have been paid due to personal limitations incurred.
This is evident from a question answer from the Ministry of the Interior to NEOS MP Stephanie Krisper. The ÖVP’s ‘post-cheating’ has cost taxpayers more than half a million euros since 2011, the NEOS criticizes.
50 complaints in 2022
Last year there were a total of 50 complaints to the Federal Equal Treatment Commission about appointment procedures at the Ministry of the Interior. In eight cases the complainant was right. In response to the question, Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) emphasized that the Ministry of the Interior carries out approximately 1,200 appointment procedures every year.
The eight successful complaints last year would correspond to about 0.7 percent of all appointment procedures.
Hundreds of thousands of euros due to haggling for jobs
According to the Ministry of the Interior, since 2011, 67,419 euros in damages had to be paid to central management and 430,045 euros to subordinate departments in the context of a procedure before the Equal Treatment Commission or the Federal Administrative Court. A total of 40 people received compensation. Another 141,538 euros was paid due to personal limitations incurred.
The NEOS criticize the fact that in the complaints procedures ideology, i.e. political views, is often cited as a reason for discrimination. “The continued corruption of posts by the ÖVP not only ensures that important powers in this republic are often not in the hands of the best, but also of the people most acceptable to the party – it also costs taxpayers every year a lot of money,” says Krisper. .
Source: Krone

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