Shortly before Christmas 2008, it was announced that the former Chancellor would return to the Lower Austrian Chamber of Labor. As head of department for 4,000 euros gross. Around the same time he signed an agreement with René Benko. Against a chancellor’s fee.
At least when he left, short-term Red Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer had a good eulogy. All media appreciated the return to the Lower Austrian Labor Chamber, which was announced shortly before Christmas 2008, where Gusenbauer had worked until 1999. “Ex-chancellors (…) also have to do some work, and the world does not always ask for the deposed top executives in domestic politics,” said the “Standard”: “A little teasing may be appropriate, but in principle that it is wonderfully unpretentious, unpretentious, heart-refreshing and almost moving that the ex-chancellor returns to Lower Austria to contribute the experiences he gained there.”
Financially you don’t have to worry about Gusenbauer: “The 4,000 euros gross is only a fifth of what Gusenbauer earned as Chancellor, but the AK will not be so strict with working hours and additional activities. If the ex-chancellor is invited to give a lecture, he should do so, and if it is well rewarded, so much the better.” And anyway: “This may seem like a step back now, but it is an honest, straight path back. to its original orbit.”
The little worker
This text appeared on December 23, 2008, 21 days after Gusenbauer’s departure from the chancellery. What the public did not know at the time: on December 23, the wonderfully honest Gusenbauer signed a consultancy agreement with financial juggler René Benko, which would earn him a chancellor’s salary of 280,000 euros per year from February 2009 (see facsimile). Plus possible bonuses. For an average time commitment of one week per month.
Gusenbauer, however, preferred to be celebrated in the media on December 23: the ex-chancellor will now use up his remaining vacation, waive the continued payment of salary to which he is actually entitled, and from February he will work as a small employee to work in an office at the AK Lower Austria and occasionally lecture at two American Keep universities, it was said. The former chancellor blocked himself from these American activities for one week a month. And the activities in his newly founded one-man company GmbH would of course be carried out in his spare time.
Departure only at the end of June 2009
With one week for the lectures and the other week for Benko, the ‘unpretentious’ AK man Gusenbauer had already planned half of the month for other purposes before his return. The official departure from the Chamber of Labor would not be announced until the end of June 2009. By the way, the then deputy head of the AK Lower Austria communicated two days in advance: The former head of government had received offers, but there was ‘nothing concrete yet’. AK function.
Source: Krone
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