The withdrawal of permission to employ Maria Thun was due to the parties’ failure to reach an agreement on employment conditions, the Central Information Technology Center reported. He emphasized that ultimately no employment relationship was established.
On Thursday, PiS MPs Waldemar Buda and Marcin Horała conducted a parliamentary inspection at the Central Information Technology Center regarding the employment and subsequent dismissal of Maria Thun, described by the media. During a briefing in the Sejm, they argued that Thun had started working at COI and warned that the state budget would probably have to pay her 250,000 PLN. PLN severance pay upon dismissal. Buda announced that as a result of the inspection, they had received emails from the Minister of Digital Affairs, Krzysztof Gawkowski, confirming that he agreed to Maria Thun’s appointment, but “after a media storm and an order from Prime Minister Donald Tusk , he got her fired.”
The Central Information Technology Center announced on Friday that it had provided PiS MPs, as part of their parliamentary inspection, with documents related to the process aimed at hiring Maria Thun.
The documents provided are: a copy of the email in which the Director of COI received permission to appoint Ms. Maria Thun as Deputy Director of the Central IT Center on January 16, 2024, the draft employment contract dated January 17, 2024 received by Maria Thun, after the presentation of which the procedure was initiated for preparing computer equipment necessary to carry out work, which she did not use, and a copy of the email of January 18, 2024, in which the Minister of Digital Affairs withdraws authorizes the appointment of Maria Thun as Deputy Director of COI.
The withdrawal of this consent is the result of the parties’ failure to reach agreement on the employment conditions
– marked.
Thun’s daughter is said to have demanded a change in the provisions regarding the amount of severance pay
It was explained that Maria Thun refused to sign an employment contract based on the standard terms proposed by the Central Information Technology Center and demanded to change the provisions of the agreement in the section on the amount of severance pay in case of termination of the employment relationship. , to which the director of the Central Center for Information Technology and the Minister of Digital Affairs did not agree.
The parties did not reach agreement on employment conditions and remuneration. Ultimately, no employment relationship was established
– emphasized the Central Information Technology Center. He called on MPs to “provide only genuine information consistent with the documents provided”.
COI also reported that – in accordance with the articles of association – the institution is managed by the director with the assistance of his deputies; the COI director is appointed and dismissed by the minister; Deputy Directors of the COI are appointed and dismissed by the Director of the COI, and the appointment and dismissal of the Deputy Director of the COI requires the prior approval of the Minister.
It was also reported that there have been no competitions for the position of Director of COI and Deputy Directors of COI in recent years.
““Gazeta Wyborcza” reported in the first half of February that Maria Thun, daughter of Róża Thun, Member of the European Parliament of the Third Way-Poland 2050, was working at the Ministry of Digitalization as Deputy Director of the Central IT Center . one day at the ministry headed by Gawkowski, and the decision about her Prime Minister Donald Tusk was to decide on the dismissal. According to journalists, the contract with Maria Thun contained a provision that in case of dismissal she would receive severance pay equal to six months’ salary, which amounts to PLN 252,000. PLN gross.
In a statement, the Ministry of Digitalization said that Maria Thun was not employed at the Ministry of Digitalization or the Central Information Technology Center, but was “in the process of joining COI.”
The parties did not agree on the employment conditions, which meant that an employment contract could not be concluded. Ms. Maria Thun did not actually go to work
– emphasized.
The message from the Ministry of Digitalization is clear. There will be no check-in. I consider the matter closed
– Gawkowski said on X last week.
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