UPDATE: Taromaa‚¬a„¢s general director resigns

Newsroom 18/03/2011 | 13:22

Ruxandra Brutaru (pictured), general director of Tarom, the Romanian state-owned airline, has resigned this week from the position but announced that she will remain with the company as deputy general director. Brutaru has held the position since December, 2008.

Brutaru said her decision is motivated by personal reasons but also by the low salary she received. “My resignation is also salary related but this isn’t the main reason. I am a mother, I have a child that starts school and doesn’t get to see me,” explained Brutaru according to Mediafax newswire.

As part of the government’s austerity measures the salaries of all general managers from state owned companies have been reduced last year, to the level of a state secretary.

Brutaru has also stated that her decision to resign has nothing to do with the political attacks coming from the Social Democrat Party (PSD) with regard to the losses posted by Tarom in the past two years.

Olguta Vasilescu, spokesperson of PSD announced on Thursday that Brutaru resigned from the general director position, for which she received a monthly gross salary of RON 6,600 (approximately EUR 1,570), for the deputy general director position which comes with a gross salary of RON 15,000 (approximately EUR 3,580). While the general manager position is paid by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the salary for the deputy general manager position comes from Tarom.