Contracts submitted to authors cause tension at RTBF

The new contracts imposed on RTBF’s external service providers provoked an outcry from unions, authors’ societies and the Higher Council for Culture.

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Journalist at the Culture Department

By Alain Lallemand

Published on 02/26/2023 at 21:06
Reading time: 6 mins

Cis a reform studied for several months by the legal departments of RTBF, presented to the middle management in early autumn then implemented in December-January by the financial department: in unilateral and coercive terms, all service providers external to the public company were submitted to a double “service provision agreement” aiming to unify and centralize the services of all external collaborators, from the humblest anecdotal columnist to false independent presenters for whom radio and television is the sole client. Both the mode of distribution and the radical nature of the content alarmed a common front of trade unions, several professional federations of culture, and finally the Superior Council of Culture, which in turn seized the general administrator of culture Freddy Cabaraux and the Minister of Culture Bénédicte Linard (Ecolo).

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