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Swiss airline requires employees to cut wages by about 15 percent. If no agreement is reached, almost one in six jobs is at risk of being lost. Out of a total of 9,500 jobs in Switzerland, 1,425 are threatened, according to the “SonntagsZeitung”. There will be a massive downsizing when employees can’t accept a pay cut of around 15 percent.
Apparently the airline has already asked unions and staff representatives to discuss a social plan at the negotiating table. Negotiations of the social plan usually herald blows of fate and heralds layoffs.
According to Swiss-Spreher Marco Lipp, the airline can only overcome the crisis with all employees, “if substantial reductions in personnel costs are achieved in all areas of the company for the period of the next crisis years.” In general, the airline should save about 20 percent of costs. All personnel areas are affected: floor, cabin and bathtub.
The biggest crisis in aviation
This means that employees who are supposed to give up at least 15 percent of their income can choose between pay cuts or downsizing. Company spokesman Lipp stresses that solutions will be sought with the social partners if layoffs occur despite joint efforts. Swiss chief Thomas Klühr told “NZZ am Sonntag” two weeks ago that he could not “guarantee anything”. The airline is forced to take harsh austerity measures because the federal government has set strict requirements on the $ 1.5 billion rescue package. Now the employees put the knife to their neck.
The crown crisis and the resulting collapse of air traffic lead to new bad news in the travel industry almost every day. In aviation there is talk of the “greatest aviation crisis”. This week, the Zurich airport announced 26 layoffs despite short-term work and a hiring freeze. Another 120 jobs will be cut next summer.
On Wednesday, the two partner airlines, Air France and KLM, announced the layoff of half of their roughly 80 employees in Switzerland. Even at the increasingly prevalent spinning mill Swissport, one in four of 65,000 jobs has already been cut at the beginning of the year. (kes)
