Scandal at the Bruckner University: Rector under pressure for secondary activities!

The Anton Bruckner private university in Linz is under pressure. Rector Martin Rummel, who holds 87.5 percent at HNE Rights GmbH, is criticized in a recent report by the Upper Austrian News (OÖN). While he emphasizes that his role as a majority shareholder is not a secondary employment, skepticism is increasing. According to the ABPU statute, each employee may only carry out a part-time job with the approval of the employer. Nevertheless, the rector has so far refused a corresponding message to the Uni-Rat, which raises questions about transparency.

In addition, a report on the legal foundations of the prohibition on sidelines makes that managing directors should generally owe their entire workforce to the company. Even if Rummel does not take on an active role in the company, the central question arises: does the passive income count as a secondary activity? Labor lawyers consider Rummel's information to be "threading" because a society is not founded for no reason. However, speculation about Rummel's commitment not only saves questions, but also throw new shadows on the credibility of its function as rector, as the OÖN reports.

dodgy shops in the office?

The allegations do not end here: Rummel is also accused of having used his position as a rector to carry out job interviews for the management of the association "Oesterreichisches Ensemble for New Music". This procedure is classified as doubtful by experts, since the university is used for the department's internal order. The combination of university tasks and business interests throws a cloudy light on the integrity of the rector.

The legal framework that regulates the secondary activities of managing directors stipulates that such activities must be coordinated in terms of content and time with the main activity of the managing director. If the legal concerns are concretized against hype, this could result in far -reaching legal consequences, as well as the experts in Haufe . In such a case, the university could get into a serious crisis of trust.