​Romanian Post has paid in 2019-2020 more than 1.1 million lei in compensation won in courts by employees who were dismissed without legal reason and then reinstated in their positions, according to the latest report of the Court of Accounts.

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Some violations detected by the Court of Accounts in the Romanian Post Office

Inspectors of the Accounting Chamber found several violations in the Romanian Post in the period 2019-2020, some of which we reproduce:

– Making compensation payments granted to some persons dismissed without legal grounds, later reinstated in their positions. Courts have held that dismissal decisions did not include the reasons for dismissal of the dismissed employees.

• In the period 2019-2020, CNPR SA calculated, recorded and paid compensations determined by the courts in the amount of 1108 thousand lei for three positions (network manager, head of IT contracts and budget management department and head of IT and C technical support department).
• Together with the redundancies carried out after the reorganization of CNPR SA, the dismissed persons received compensatory wages in the amount of 503 thousand lei, but according to two decisions from the budget of CNPR SA, additional payments were made for the reintegration of people, exceeding the amount of compensatory wages paid at the time of dismissal.
• Moreover, compensations were also provided in the event of a decision, although the duties of the eliminated position were accepted by renaming the position, without its exclusion from the organizational chart.
  The deviation occurred as a result of the lack of justification for changes in the structure of the organizational chart of CNPR SA, through the implementation of the Memorandum dated September 27, 2017, the topic of which is “Measures for the recovery of CNPR activities”, so that the Plan for the recovery of the company’s activities did not lead to the achievement of its goal;

– Implementation of non-economic costsdue to the lack of transparency in the establishment of wage rights and without clearly defined performance criteria or established exceptional situations of granting wage rights through individual negotiations, in some cases, by exceeding the wage scale.

• Certain categories of personnel, including managerial positions at the branch level, were paid wages at the level of the central office, taking into account that the activity was carried out at the regional level.
• At the same time, through individual negotiations, situations were identified when the established salaries exceeded the level of remuneration of the general director;

– Execution of investment tasks predicted in 2019-2020 recorded a low degree of realization, accordingly, in 2019 the degree of realization of investments was 16.83%, and in 2020 this indicator was 26.68%.

• As a result, the approved investment goals and forecasted indicators for 2019 and 2020 have not been achieved, due to the registration of a delay in the commissioning of the main approved investment tasks, which may cause additional costs;

– Payment of wages to employees who engaged in trade union activities as members of the trade union was carried out inconsistently with the activities established by the individual labor contract.

• CNPR SA employees, who perform a variety of administrative functions, have been entrusted with the continuous implementation of union activities, although this legal right is established only for members elected to the executive governing bodies of the union.
• During the audited period, for the audited sample, the subject made non-economic expenses in the amount of 584 thousand lei, representing the wages of personnel who carried out trade union activities during the working hours of the Company, although this right was provided for in the Social Dialogue Law No. 62/2011 only for members elected to executive management bodies of the union;

What recommendations did the Accounting Chamber make?

To eliminate these violations, the Rahunkov court made the following recommendations:

• analysis and clarification of the reasons that led to the non-implementation of the investments for which the funds were allocated, and taking the necessary measures;
• analysis of the reasons that led to the emergence of legal proceedings regarding the reintegration of dismissed persons, the consequences for the budget of the enterprise with the simultaneous adoption of measures to prevent similar situations and recovery of damages caused as a result of the execution of court decisions. sentence;
• implementing measures to update the provisions provided for in the Collective Labor Agreement regarding the remuneration of staff at CNPR SA in accordance with labor legislation, the elimination of discrimination and the application of equal treatment to all employees and the establishment of exceptional situations, the criteria for which the CEO can assign a salary above the maximum level in the tariff grid corresponding to the position;
• verification of all claims arising as a result of legal proceedings, clarification of their nature and appointment of measures to compensate for any losses, as well as development of a procedure for further consideration and collection of claims, as well as removal of established claims from accounting;
• analysis of the necessity and possibility of revising the provisions of the Collective Agreement regarding the rights of the members of the trade union working at the enterprise, in accordance with the legislation, and establishing for the members elected to the executive bodies of the trade union, a reasonable number of days devoted to trade union activities, without disrupting the company’s activities.

HotNews.ro has asked the Romanian Post Office to provide an explanation of the measures taken to remedy the problems and compensate for the damages reported by the Audit Chamber, and we will return with answers as soon as we receive them.