The minutes of the CP board meeting that approved the dismissal of then-employee Cristina Pinto Dias with the right to compensation reveal that the then-administrator and staff of the company asked for an excuse not to participate in the decision that accepted her requests to leave. the company. .
But does not indicate the existence of any internal opinion to maintain that the then CP staff could be fired without the need for replacement. And, according to testimony from the current president of the company in Parliament, this was one of the three criteria established in the layoff program to which the then vice president of CP and current Secretary of State for Mobility adhered.
The extract from the minutes of July 22, 2015 reached the deputies of the Economy and Public Works commission from the former president of the PC, Manuel Queiró, who mentioned it at the hearing held this Wednesday. The document reveals that Cristina Pinto Dias was present, despite not having voted on the point. She invoked “impediment and incompatibility in the assessment of this agenda item, taking into account the matter in question, having excused herself from making a decision on it, thus issuing a statement that is recorded here.”
Former president says that CP could not reject Cristina Dias’ request for dismissal with the right to compensation
Cristina Pinto Dias left CP at the age of 48 with a remuneration of almost 80 thousand euros, being appointed the next day to the administration of the Mobility and Transport Authority (AMT), where she went on to earn almost double that. This 2015 case was recovered when Cristina Pinto Dias was appointed Secretary of State for Transport and Mobility.
Pinto Luz evaluated and saw no illegality in the compensation paid by CP to the now Secretary of State for Mobility
From the minutes of the 2015 meeting it is clear that the administration decided based on the requests for resignation from the position of vice president of CP, and the other positions he held at the time, and the request for revocation by mutual agreement of the respective individual contract of work. signed with CP. In the same meeting it was determined that the remuneration would be calculated by the human resources department “in the terms and conditions in force in the company, considering all effective working time from 2/12/1992 to the current date, 07/22/2015, for the calculation of the global pecuniary compensation to be paid.”
But it does not mention the existence of any prior internal opinion, neither legal nor human resources or the respective management. According to testimony from the current president of the company, Pedro Moreira, the layoff program established only three criteria that workers had to meet to be fired:
- The written expression of this intention by the workers;
- Acceptance that they would not have access to unemployment benefits;
- Opinion of the administration or leadership that they could be dismissed without needing to be replaced.
Pedro Moreira also told deputies that the conditions of this layoff program were approved in two CP board meetings in 2013, one of which established the rules for calculating compensation. This program, which according to former president Manuel Queiró, applied to technical and administrative workers and not operational workers, did not establish an age limit for employees to negotiate a dismissal.
“All those who complied could negotiate their employment contract,” said the current president of the CP. Pedro Moreira, in office since 2022, highlighted that his knowledge of this process is based on the company’s documentary record. The manager also stated that the termination program was revoked in 2019.
In the previous hearing, Manuel Queiró revealed that CP management agreed to waive the 30-day period that Cristina Pinto Dias would have to meet before ending her relationship with the company. The position in the administration of the transport regulator was incompatible with maintaining a link with the company and the former director was appointed the next day, in what the socialist deputy Pedro Coimbra describes as a “fast track” with the right to “savings”, citing an expression used by the former director of Emef who reported this case.
According to the PS deputy, the two decisions on the departure of Cristina Pinto Dias were made in extraordinary meetings of the PC administration.
Source: Observadora
