In an email to RTÉ staff today, RTÉ Director-General, Kevin Backhurst confirmed that RTÉ’s Voluntary Exit Programme (VEP) 2025 is open from today, Wednesday 23rd April.

This VEP comprises a Voluntary Severance (VS) and Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) scheme and is open to employees who will have completed at least two years’ continuous service on the date your employment ceases.

Applications will be accepted until 5pm on Friday 23rd May.

The email noted that:

All applications will go through a five-stage review process throughout the coming months, with final decisions on all applications being made by the Leadership Team and final oversight by the RTÉ Board’s Remuneration and Management Committee.

Applications will be approved only where a robust business case is made, and it is confirmed that the role can be suppressed or that equivalent savings can be made by suppressing an alternative post and/or redeploying an employee into that role.

Communication of final decisions will commence from 1st September, with exits of successful applicants taking place on 31st October, 30th November and 31st December.

A Steering Group is being put in place to oversee this Voluntary Exit Programme at all stages. This group includes a representative(s) from McCann Fitzgerald Solicitors who have been appointed to provide independent external oversight of the VEP.

Communication of final decisions to applications will take place from Monday 1st September.

ENDS