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British Airways expected to suspend 36,000 staff
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IANS | 02 Apr, 2020
British Airways (BA) is expected to announce the suspension of around
36,000 staff members after the UK flag carrier grounded much of its
fleet due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Thursday.
Thursday's
development comes after the airline has been negotiating with the Unite
union for more than a week, a BBC report said, adding that the two
sides have reached a broad deal but were yet to sign on some details.
The
agreement means that up to 80 per cent of BA cabin crew, ground staff,
engineers and those working at head office will have their jobs
suspended but no staff are expected to be made redundant.
The
decision will affect all staff at Gatwick and London City Airport after
the airline suspended its operations at both locations until the crisis
was over.
Those affected were expected to receive some of their
wages through the government's coronavirus job retention scheme, which
covers 80 per cent of someone's salary capped at a maximum of 2,500
pounds a month.
Meanwhile, many staff at Virgin Atlantic have
already had their jobs suspended for two months and crews at Easyjet
were out of work for three months.
This week, British Airways has
run government repatriation flights to get hundreds of UK nationals
home from Peru, after the country went into a lockdown.
The UK has reported 29,865 confirmed coronavirus cases and 2,357 fatalities.
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