Ryanair wants to cut 172 jobs in our country. The Irish airline has informed the unions about this. This is about double compared to Ryanair’s initial plans.
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There are 106 cabin members and 66 pilots in danger of losing their jobs, according to ACV Puls secretary Hans Elsen. In July, the company announced that it wanted to cut some 80 jobs. The jobs are disappearing at both Charleroi airport and Brussels.
Ryanair would cut the extra jobs because the corona crisis is hitting society more severely than expected and fewer bookings are coming in.
According to the union, it is ‘unseen’ that a company wants to cut extra jobs during a dismissal procedure. The union secretary suspects that Ryanair wants to exert pressure in this way. ‘We see the same scenario all over Europe. Ryanair is threatening with redundancies, in order to reduce wages and demand more flexibility ‘.
ACV speaks of an ‘opportunistic’ measure by Ryanair. ‘Compared to other airlines, Ryanair has been less affected’ by the crisis in aviation, because the airline does not have intercontinental flights.
Just over 500 people work at Ryanair in our country, most of them at Charleroi airport.
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