<story><title>Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/04/bookingcom-repay-eu65-million-state-aid-giving-eu28-million-bonuses-3-execs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neom</author><text>Similar conversation happening in Canada (but no repayment):&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Bloc Québécois MP Xavier Barsalou-Duval put forward the motion, which states “that this House condemn the decision of senior management of Air Canada to pay themselves $20 million in executive bonuses when they’re received $6 billion in public assistance.”&lt;p&gt;Air Canada informed shareholders on Monday that its top executives and managers were getting a combined $10 million in stock options and bonuses for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;globalnews.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;7918875&amp;#x2F;air-canada-executive-bonuses-covid-pandemic&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;globalnews.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;7918875&amp;#x2F;air-canada-executive-bonu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs</title><url>https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/04/bookingcom-repay-eu65-million-state-aid-giving-eu28-million-bonuses-3-execs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gargs</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;outline.com&amp;#x2F;Nf5eNe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;outline.com&amp;#x2F;Nf5eNe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a little bit of background from an article at the start of the pandemic. The company had originally announced that they would cancel bonuses in exchange for government support. They even promised to protect jobs, which they didn&amp;#x27;t, and laid off around 5000 anyway.</text></comment>