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According to the Swedish Pilot Association (SPF), the airline SAS has rounded the figure for how many pilots are said to 650, out of 630.
Three of the other 20 people who are fired are Swedish, writes the Siren news agency.
The union now wants, with the lawsuit, that these three layoffs be annulled. The pilot partnership also requires SEK 75,000 per person, a total of SEK 225,000.
Lack of work after crown
In the lawsuit before the Labor Court, SPF describes the background to the mass firing of pilots:
“SAS has around 500 pilots at the Stockholm (Arlanda) base and roughly the same number of pilots employed at the Oslo and Copenhagen bases. Covid 19 has exhausted the aviation industry jobs as the demand for air travel has dropped dramatically following the March 2020 pandemic outbreak. “
During the MBL negotiations, SAS said that 40 percent of employees would be notified. According to SPF calculations, 40 percent equals 630 people, but the airline has laid off 650 full-time jobs.
The pilots union: “No investigation”
In the lawsuit, the union writes:
“Before the crisis, there were 1,575 full-time positions for pilots at SAS, and in that context there is a lack of research and support on how SAS has achieved 650 layoffs.”
Of the total 650 pilots, 105 have chosen to go voluntarily, while SAS has gone ahead and laid off 545, according to SPF.
“The difference between 650 pilots and 630 pilots, SPF believes that SAS has not demonstrated a sufficiently thorough investigation for factual reasons due to lack of work for it to be considered to exist. Of these 20 pilots, three are based on Swedish soil. All these three pilots have annulled the SAS layoffs “writes the union, which believes that the dismissal of the three Swedish pilots “has no factual basis.”
