Phased departure for RTÉ staff who took redundancy

RTÉ employees who have been accepted on to the latest round of early retirement and voluntary redundancy packages at the station are leaving on a phased basis.

RTÉ management has issued letters to some of the 250 staff who applied for the latest package — for which the cutoff point was June — over the past four weeks.

Staff remain under threat of further pay cuts of 4% if savings of €25m cannot be found by the end of this year.