The airline Austrian Airlines, which receives hundreds of millions of euros in state support from the Republic of Austria as well as loan guarantees, is said to have paid out around 2,9 million euros to management in the middle of the corona crisis. Although the company emphasizes that these were back payments for 2019, the Vida union has strongly criticized the process. "It seems to me as if Finance Minister Blümel is crying over spilt milk. After all, this kind of thing hasn't just been happening today. Appeals to companies and lip service are therefore not enough. What is finally needed are clear legal rules that if corporations are supported with taxpayers' money and savings are made on employees, no additional bonuses can be paid to managers who are already well paid," said Vida Chairman Roman Hebenstreit. "And that doesn't just apply to the current case of AUA, it must apply to managers of all corporations. Hard-working and tax-paying people are always the first to have to accept cuts in the form of unemployment or short-time work due to financial and economic crises or, as is the case now, the Corona crisis. As taxpayers, they also have to absorb the losses of companies. Their understanding of bonus payments to managers is therefore likely to be limited." The trade unionist stresses that although the bonus regulation is based on performance from the previous year and the Corona crisis was not yet foreseeable at that time, it remains to be questioned whether such management payments are justified, especially since consumers are also waiting for their ticket costs to be refunded and employees have to accept reduced salaries, says Hebenstreit. "Hard-working taxpayers cannot