The Secretary of State for Mobility said this Wednesday in Parliament that her departure from the CP was “compulsory by law” for her entry into the AMT and that compensation was calculated automatically.
“My resignation from CP was required by law. There was no idea of unpaid leave, no possibility of requesting it, assigning it or suspending the contract. It was impossible to resort to any other mechanism other than dismissal,” Christina said. Diaz at a parliamentary hearing.
Cristina Dias was summoned to the Economy, Public Works and Housing Committee at the request of the PS in connection with her departure from the CP – Comboios de Portugal with a compensation of 80,000 euros to take on the duties of administrator of the Office of Mobility and Transport (AMT). ).
“From the moment I notified CP of my intention to voluntarily join the consensual separation program, the process followed the same procedure as hundreds of similar cases involving Comboios de Portugal employees who joined the consensual separation program,” said the Secretary of State.
Christina Diaz noted that the request was “agreed upon and sent to Human Resources” for processing “in accordance with the table applicable to all employees.”
“The compensation was made absolutely clearly and transparently. It was an Excel spreadsheet that had been in place since 2010,” he added.
The minister rejected comparisons with the case of former finance minister Alexandra Reis, guaranteeing that “if there is any parallelism, it is recognition of the seniority criterion established by the IGF.” [Inspeção-Geral de Finanças]in the audit report.”
“I didn’t leave CP to go to TAP […]. “I left a job that I had, if I wanted, for life, with more than 18 years of service, and would honorably join the board of directors of the regulatory body with a unique and inimitable mandate,” he defended himself, claiming that compensation was calculated automatically .
The newspaper Correio da Manhã (CM) reported on April 19, after Cristina Dias was announced as Secretary of State for Mobility, that the current governor left the CP – Comboios de Portugal in July 2015 with compensation of about 80,000 euros to take on assumed the duties of the AMT administrator at the invitation of the PSD/CDS-PP government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.
According to the newspaper, he then received a salary and entertainment expenses at AMT of about 13,440 euros per month, almost double the 7,210 euros he received at CP.
Cristina Diaz assured that the process of joining the AMT was public and took place through the Commission on Recruitment and Selection of Civil Servants (CReSAP).
After leaving her position as CP Vice President, Christina Diaz returned to the position of Senior Technical Specialist.
Given the salary she would receive at AMT, the current Secretary of State assured that she “did not know and should not have known what her salary would be.”
On 22 May, former director of the Railway Equipment Maintenance Company (EMEF), Francisco Fortunato, who denounced the case in 2015, said in Parliament that “no standards were met” in the process and that the compensation paid to CP was “an act of mismanagement. harmful to the public interest and carried out in complete disregard of existing regulations and the austerity policies then applied by the government to the majority of workers.”
On May 29, also at a hearing of the Committee on Economy, Public Works and Housing, former CP President Manuel Cairo, who held that position while Cristina Díaz was administrator and left the company, denied that he knew in advance about the departure of the current Secretary of State to AMT.
On the same day, the current chairman of the board of directors of the CP, Pedro Miguel Moreira, stressed in parliament that the cancellation of the contract of Cristina Díaz “occurred as an employee of the CP, and not as an administrator,” even despite the request for resignation. from the position of administrator and the requirement to terminate the contract as part of the company occurred on the same day, July 22, 2015.
Regarding the amount of compensation, this person said that he had checked that the rules for calculating monetary compensation were followed. “In the documents that I saw, I did not find any restrictions, because there were goals for reducing the workforce, which seemed to me to be a priority,” he added.
Also on June 5, it became known that the former Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, Sergio Monteiro, who was part of the PSD/SDS-PP government led by Pedro Passos Coelho, said that Cristina Dias did not know about the salary she was paid. earn at AMT when he was asked to leave CP and had his “individual claims” for compensation rejected.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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