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Airport staff working for Daa will see their salary cut to 60% with a three-day week starting Sept. 26 if they don’t agree to a restructuring program when they vote on proposals next week, according to CEO Dalton Philips. .
The restructuring, which could cause the Dublin and Cork airport operator to lose between 700 and 900 jobs, has been triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sources noted that acceptance of the proposals had been recommended in 90% of the affected sections before the vote.
In a video aimed at today’s workforce, Philips said that traffic at Dublin Airport is still 85% lower than last year, while traffic through Cork is going even worse, with traffic falling 90%.
In further proof of the aviation collapse, load factors have also plummeted to less than 40% in Dublin and around 30% in Cork.
In the sections that accepted the proposed reforms, which would see them operating in new ways with fewer staff, the salary would remain at 80% of the “minimum” pre-Covid rates through January, Philips said.
However, he went on to warn that in areas where the Daa was unable to adopt new ways of working, they would have too many people and too little work.
“In those areas, unfortunately, we are going to have to lower wages to 60% as a result of too many people and too little work,” he said. “So we will have to move to a three-day week because the traffic just doesn’t support anything more than a three-day week.”
Mr. Philips said that it was clearly Daa’s wish to restore pay to 100% as soon as possible.
He said the key is that people must have a full understanding of the pros and cons of the difficult decisions they had to make, but added that whatever the outcome of the vote, the Daa would live with the consequences and move on.
He said airport operators are expressing concern about long-distance traffic “that is really running out,” noting that Qantas is talking about stopping international traffic until after next Easter, and that there is also uncertainty about when it will reopen. United.
He said an aviation observer had described Ireland as “Europe’s North Korea” due to quarantine and other restrictions, which had made the country one of the most difficult to get in and out of today.
The Daa has been pushing hard for Covid-19 testing to be done before departure, Philips said, so that when people arrive in Ireland they can show the result of the test at immigration and can pass without self-quarantine.
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