Save the Children: Palm will not take other jobs – Expressen

Save the Children Nomination prohibits former S-peak Veronica Palm to take other jobs or duties during the time she is president of the organization.

The news now gives the Nomination Committee for Expressen disclosure of the shock rise in board fees.

– you can not have any other jobs or other assignments that you get income from. This is what one should engage in at 100 percent, says MEP Monica Ekström.

The current chairman of Save the Children, Inger Ashing, does not charge a penny in fees.

But her successor, former S-peak Veronica Palm, receives a fee of 46,800 crowns a month plus pension provisions.

Nomination board member Monica Ekström defends now the proposal which means that the fee linked to the parliamentary allowance.

“We’ve been checking business environment”

– We have been checking the surrounding world and looked at how other organizations arvoderar. Red Cross, an organization similar to Save the Children, a remuneration that is linked to remuneration for MPs, says Monica Ekström.

However, it is not obvious that the governing parliamentary session will really go on the Nomination line .

– It is up to the parliamentary session.

why do you compare with the Red cross and not with Unicef, Brisbane or the Mayflower that has no fees to their boards?

– Brisbane is not the same type of organization. But we have listened to the members of the movement views too … And you feel that there is a gap between the member movement and the national organization. We believe that it is required to provide the chairman and vice chairman to devote most of his time to Save the Children, for us to have a more cohesive organization.

How many hours a week will Chair working for Save the children?

– She will have it as their main occupation.

Does this mean 40 hours a week?

– it’s a full time job, yes.

So there is no option to have other assignments?

– no. You can not have any other jobs or other assignments that you get income from. It is that one should devote himself to one hundred percent.

apolitical organization

Monica Ekström also comments on the fact that Veronica Palm today is chairman of the Social Democrats in Stockholm sits in the party executive committee – when she was in the autumn take over the pronounced apolitical organization Save the children:

– We have been clear that she will leave the missions. Then we should also remember that Save the Children has previously been chairman who come from political parties and held political positions. But it has never affected before.

You yourself have had assignments for the Left in the past – do you still have any such today?

– No. The only thing is that I’m sitting in the Medical Responsibility.

And that’s how the Left?

– Yes.

How is the political assignments among you who sit on the Nomination Committee?

– I have no idea. We are not chosen because we have a political party color.

Expressen have searched Veronica Palm, but she would not answer any questions about either the compensation or candidacy for the presidency. Palm resigns as president of the municipality works at the annual meeting this weekend.