Their superiors who were responsible for the trip will be also stripped of bonuses. The ministry will take measures to prevent similar cases from repeating, Sezemsky added. The daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) recently reported that the event for 35 ministerial clerks from the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry cost 392,000 crowns without VAT, three-quarters of which were covered from the ESF and one-quarter from the state budget. Consequently, each clerk participating in the trip would have to pay 4216 crowns per day, Sezemsky said. The clerks stayed in a four-star hotel in the Vysocina Bohemian-Moravian Highlands for three days, but the working part of the programme lasted only five hours.
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Schwarzenberg rejects radar-for-Czech president deal ... off-road four-wheelers and other leisure time activities. Necas (senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS) had all other meetings of ministerial clerks outside Prague since 2004 checked. Four of the total of 23 events were of a similar character like the "team-building" weekend in Vysocina, which was the most costly one. The inspection revealed that the ministry had no exact rules for organising such meetings of its clerks. This is why Necas would like to determine a limit per person and day, Sezemsky said. The ministry should cover accommodation, catering, technical equipment and lecturers, while participants would cover other activities from their own pockets. In the future, they should not stay in expensive hotels, but rather in the ministry's own training centres. ($1=16.221 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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