[LONDON] UK lawmakers lashed out at British Airways (BA) over plans for 12,000 job cuts, saying the carrier had sought to exploit the coronavirus crisis to slash headcount and weaken employment terms for remaining staff. Read more at The Business Times.
[LONDON] UK lawmakers lashed out at British Airways over plans for 12,000 job cuts, saying the carrier had sought to exploit the coronavirus crisis to slash headcount and weaken employment terms for remaining staff.
The House of Commons transport committee said in a report on the pandemic's impact on aviation that while some workforce reductions were inevitable, BA had made a calculated bid to take advantage of the situation even as the state was paying the wages of employees through a national furlough programme.
"The behaviour of British Airways and its parent company towards its employees is a national disgrace," the report said."It falls well below the standards we would expect from any employer, especially in light of the scale of taxpayer subsidy, at this time of national crisis." As well as planning to cut almost 30 per cent of its payroll, BA warned that it would dismiss all of its 4,300 pilots and rehire them on new contracts in the absence of a deal to save money. The unit of IAG has since struck a more conciliatory tone, saying that it's looking at offering voluntary redundancy to pilots and other staff as an alternative to compulsory dismissals.
The committee urged UK aviation to hold off on headcount decisions until the furlough programme ends in October and called on the government to change the rules to penalise firms imposing sweeping cuts while receiving taxpayer funds.
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