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The disagreement is over how redundancy should be handled at the airline. SAS has given a big warning during the corona pandemic, which affected a total of 1,900 employees in Sweden and 5,000 in Scandinavia.
In June, the company said 650 of the pilots would be allowed to leave. Since then, negotiations have been held with the umbrella organization of Scandinavian pilot unions, SAS Pilot Group, on how to handle layoffs in a different way.
Now Norwegian reports Today’s business that the negotiations have ended without the parties agreeing.
Both parties have previously submitted their own proposals on what measures could be contemplated. It’s all about different combinations of part-time work and pay cuts to save money instead of services.
Jesper Olsson of the Swedish pilots union, and vice president of SAS Pilot Group, confirms to DN that they have not agreed with the company on all points, but says that the negotiations have not concluded.
– In the short term, we quite agree, it is in terms of the situation of the pilots in the long term that we are more separated, says Jesper Olsson, Vice President of SAS Pilot Group.
Information on Dagens Næringsliv they are, according to him, not entirely correct.
– It does not reflect everywhere what we perceive to be correct, says Jesper Olsson.
He admits that there are no discussions currently underway, but believes that the pilots’ proposals are still on the table and that they are ready to continue negotiating the issue.
– SAS Pilot Group has not finalized any conversation with SAS. We are ready to continue discussions on our crisis package proposal. I can’t comment on SAS’s choice to handle redundancy in this situation, says Jesper Olsson.
SAS has, to move on With the crisis loans they were offered and the recapitalization plan they presented, they promised to find savings of four billion a year.
The airline’s Norwegian press manager, Johan Eckhoff, tells DN that of the 650 layoffs announced in June, 545 pilots have been laid off. Others have accepted offers of voluntary solutions.
– You have to make a savings of four billion and it is done in collaboration with all groups of employees, including pilots, he says.
