TAP wanted to give more allowance and overtime. Pilots rejected – Daily News – Lisbon

Increase in allowances, plus overtime, suspension of disciplinary proceedings and a premium of 1.5% per year for five years from 2026. With these four short and long term proposals that TAP He tried to stop the strike ten days of the pilots, which ended yesterday, found the DN / Mad Money.

The agreement in principle, which was to be negotiated on the eve of the strike at night and already had the authorization government, was rejected at the last minute by the Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union (SPAC). The proposals were “insignificant” and “more of the same” defend the pilots who did not rule out the possibility of appeal to a new strike to defend the fulfillment of company agreements and wage “opaque and disastrous privatization process”.

The first point of the agreement provided for an upward revision of the value of allowances for travel outside the euro area, particularly to the United States and Brazil, due to the recent sharp depreciation of the euro. Fernando Pinto, president of TAP, was willing to increase the value of this aid in at least 10%. Another proposal concerned the limits of flight hours for pilots began to receive overtime. In other words, the goal was undergoing reduce by 5% the number of normal working hours per month for the pilots to begin to do more overtime and thus receive higher pay.

DN / Mad Money knows that the agreement also proposed a compensation to mitigate the freezing and non-replacement of seniority in the post-privatization period of the Portuguese airline. Not to overload the first five years of the business plan of the TAP would be paid compensation from the eleventh year after the sale, with cumulative and that would last five years. In practice, it would be paid a premium of 1.5% per year from 2026. If this year riders recover 1.5% of seniority, in 2027 would receive 3% by 2030, the year that the premium would rise to 7, 5%.

The last proposal of the agreement provided for the suspension of the disciplinary proceedings of some riders. At issue are cases of non-compliance with internal regulations and that are still open.

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