SAS will lay off 300 cabin crew in Denmark – E24
300 laid-off cabin crew are not allowed to return to their jobs. Now the positions will instead be advertised again in the new companies.
It reports Denmark’s radio.
The employees were laid off during the pandemic, in the belief that they could return with everyday life.
Now, however, the Danish cabin crew have been told that the positions will disappear in June.
“As it looks right now, it is not likely that SAS SK will be able to offer more laid-off cabin crew to return to a permanent position before 30 June 2020,” the letter from the employees states.
– Absolutely unreasonable
Press manager John Eckhoff at SAS confirms to E24 that these are Danish employees, organized in the Cabin Attendants Union (CAU).
– We have an agreement that has been broken by SAS, as they have chosen not to call back colleagues as production has resumed, says manager Christa Cerés to the Danish cinnamon.
– We experience that it is completely unreasonable. We now stand and have to say goodbye to 300 nice, loyal colleagues, for whom there really should be jobs and space. Maybe not all, but at least a good portion of them, Cerés says.
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During the pandemic, SAS established the subsidiaries SAS Link and SAS Connect, where new positions are announced continuously.
The laid-off workers must now apply for these positions instead, until both unions and politicians call poorer working conditions.
In addition, they have to start again on the pay scale.
– It is the same work, in the same planes and with the same uniforms, but on poorer pay and working conditions, says Cerés under DR’s news broadcast on Thursday.
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180 have returned
SAS confirms to DR News that around 300 employees have received letters of resignation. They add that 180 others have returned to work during the permit period.
– Link and Connect are to separate companies, and the agreements we entered into with the cabin crew that were allowed have nothing to do with these companies, writes spokesperson Alexandra Lindgren Kaoukji in SAS in an e-mail to DR.
– The cabin crew authorized by SAS Scandinavia have been promised re-employment to the extent that SAS has needed to re-employ staff. 180 have returned during the permit period.