Air France employees protest over planned job cuts
Air France executives met labor representatives on Friday (July 3) as union members and staff protested over the airline's plans for around 7,500 job cuts to cope with a collapse in travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A group of 100 union members and employees, from cleaning staff to check-in assistants, demonstrated outside the airline's base at Paris' Roissy airport, criticizing its plans to cut staff after receiving state aid to help the company to ride out the pandemic fallout.
At least half of the cuts are likely to entail voluntary departures and retirement plans, sources familiar with the matter said this week. The bulk of layoffs will fall at Air France, but unions said just over 1,000 will hit its sister airline "HOP!," based in the eastern city of Nantes, where employees also erected banners in protest on Friday.
The French government — which granted Air France 7 billion euros ($7.87 billion) in aid, including state-backed loans, to help it to survive — has urged the airline to avoid compulsory layoffs, though it has conceded Air France was "on the edge."
(Source: Reuters)
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