In a year of losses, TAP paid 1.17 million euros in premiums to 180 workers.
Premiums that were paid with the salary of May of these collaborators and that oscillate between the 110 thousand and a little more than thousand Euros.
And with this the government accused TAP of "disregarding the duties of institutional collaboration".
The government new about the payment of these premiums through the media, also notes the note of the government, which later remembers that the taxpayers are the largest shareholders of TAP, so the citizens. Means citizens will pay through the taxes all these mistakes.
António Costa, the Portuguese prime-minister, defended that the State considers the model of distribution of prizes decided by the executive committee of TAP "incompatible with the standards of sobriety" that must exist in companies owned by the State.
TAP administrators nominated by Parpública said that the awarding of prizes was "a unilateral decision" and that they were surprised by the media disclosure of payments that go "beyond the fulfillment of contractual responsibilities", because when the topic was discussed, the State administrators were against, but of little value.
At the conclusion of the meeting of the Board of Directors, which is required by the State-appointed directors, after a unilateral decision to award bonuses to a group of workers without due contractual obligation, they do not appear in the procedure adopted," a note of the directors of TAP SGPS appointed by Parpública.