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Feb 10, 2024 at 12:53 Update: 30 minutes ago

The entire public broadcaster will receive a collective action plan in response to the Van Rijn committee’s research report on inappropriate behavior in the workplace.

The NPO will announce at the end of February and after a consultation with outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper (Culture and Media) when the action plan will be ready.

This is a plan that makes clear how the recommendations from the report will be implemented. “In that action plan we will also make clear how and to whom we will be accountable for the follow-up to the recommendations and the results,” a spokesperson said when asked.

The NPO’s response comes after a Volkskrant-interview with Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner for sexual misconduct and sexual violence. He calls for “an independent committee of experts to ensure that broadcasters follow the recommendations”. In addition, Hamer believes that a “generational change” must take place at the NPO and the public broadcasters. “Replacing one figure won’t be enough.”

“At the NPO I see people who I think are allies and ambassadors. And there are people who I think: I don’t know if they will ever understand it,” Hamer said more than a week after the presentation of the report. “If nothing happens now, we can produce such a report again in five years. And then we all say: gosh, nothing has changed.”

Three quarters of (former) NPO employees had to deal with misconduct

The Van Rijn committee investigated abuses within the NPO and presented the results on February 1. Three in four (former) NPO employees who participated in the survey appeared to have experienced misconduct in the past year. They told of a “screaming culture”, arguments and physical misconduct.

The NPO does not say whether people within the public broadcaster should leave or not. According to the spokesperson, that is up to the individual employers, the supervisory boards and the people involved themselves.

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