Zoff about a works council election at ORF. In a letter to “Krone”, employees make serious accusations about video surveillance in the voting booths. You want to write a letter to the Labor and Social Court.
There is a new works council head in the general management of ORF, the journalist Alexander Schrems. He replaces Konrad Mitschka in this role. However, the works council elections on February 19 and 20 are overshadowed by serious accusations.
According to an anonymous letter from ORF employees, which is available to the “Krone”, the room (the atrium) in which the elections were held is said to have been equipped with surveillance cameras. “Cameras were mounted above both voting cells, making unnoticed and fearless voting impossible,” the letter states, among other things.
Labor and Social Court
The disgruntled employees also claim that a mirrored window provided a view of both polling booths. One of the employees of the “Krone” said that there is an increasingly “repressive climate” towards journalists in the ORF as a whole. The plan now is to send the letter to the Labor and Social Court.
ORF denies this
The ORF firmly rejects the “absurd” accusations. “The Atrium Hugo Portisch in the ORF Center is an event space and as such is of course equipped with cameras for broadcasting events or presentations. These cameras were obviously not activated during the works council election of the General Management, and the position of the director was also not occupied. “In addition, the voting booth was out of the panning range of the camera,” the written statement continued.
The works council traditionally has a powerful position within ORF. He wants, among other things, to prevent salaries from being made public.
Source: Krone
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