Adriana Săftoiu, the president and general director of Romanian Television (TVR), says that she has an oversized salary due to a provision in the collective labor contract negotiated with the unions.
Adriana Săftoiu's statements were made in the Judecata de Acum podcast, published on March 26, and were quoted by G4media.
According to her, the law says that he must have a salary similar to a minister, of 21,000 lei gross, but, thanks to a “coefficient” in the Collective Labor Agreement, the salary ends up being more than 2 times higher.
“The law says something very simple: the head of TV is assimilated to a minister from the point of view of salary: 21,000 gross lei. What can you see, my salary is much higher. I am the president of the Board of Directors, but also the General Director. The General Director must have an employment book. I discovered that there is an annex to the Collective Labor Agreement with some coefficients. The coefficient is 10.5 for the president-general manager of TVR. This coefficient is multiplied by the minimum salary on TVR, about 4250 lei. Multiply it by 10.5”, explained Adriana Săftoiu.
She added that other directors and producers in TVR also benefit from these high salary ratios. The head of TVR also said that, in order to lower her salary, a renegotiation of this act is needed.
“In order to reduce my salary, I have to open the Collective Labor Agreement and reduce the coefficients, which lead to very high values, for producers, for directors. By negotiating with the unions that follow the CMM, we start with this coefficient, which will be reduced,” said the head of TVR.
Adriana Săftoiu added that the TVR operating law is outdated and should be updated.
“We operate on a law from 1994. The law is a very big problem. The Court of Accounts asked me to clarify whether I am on the Administrative Code or the Labor Code. I addressed the Parliament to clarify. I received the answer from the Parliament that it is not within their competence”, Săftoiu said.
Who is Adriana Săftoiu?
Adriana Săftoiu was appointed in November 2025 general director of TVR. Her support for the leadership of TVR was decided by the PNL, while the appointment to this position went to the liberals.
Adriana Săftoiu was a journalist, then spokeswoman for former president Traian Băsescu, in his first term in Cotroceni. For 8 years she was also a deputy.
In 2012, elected on the PNL lists, Adriana Săftoiu resigned from the Parliament: “I give up my mandate and refuse to deceive and deceive the people,” she said.
Săftoiu then motivated by the fact that his actions as a deputy have no effect. “I tried to regulate the law on school textbooks, for a year and a half it has been lying forgotten in some drawer. Unfortunately, I was not in the right bank, in the bank of Power.”
She was a journalist at Rompres and Mediafax between 1993-1998. From 1998 to 2000 she was the spokesperson of the Government (when Radu Vasile was prime minister). For one year, from 2000 to 2001, he was also cabinet director at the Ministry of Transport (when Traian Băsescu was minister).
In the period 2001-2004, she was the press director of the Democratic Party (PD). From 2004 to 2007, she was the spokesperson of President Traian Băsescu. Between 2012-2016, he was a political and institutional communication trainer, according to his CV.
