Virus-hammered Air France announces 7,500 job cuts

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Air France and regional subsidiary Hop have announced 7,500 job cuts over the pandemic. Unions are angry the French government didn’t require Air France to protect jobs when it won 7 billion euros in bailout funds.

Air France workers gather during a protest in front of the company headquarters in Tremblay-en-France, outside Paris Friday, July 3, 2020. Air France is meeting with personnel representatives Friday to discuss thousands of job cuts after the virus pandemic grounded most flights and darkened prospects for future air travel.

Activists from multiple unions protested at Air France headquarters at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport as talks began Friday morning about future job prospects at France’s flagship airline. The company said most of the losses will come through not replacing retiring and departing workers and that it would encourage voluntary departures and early retirements before imposing layoffs.

“It’s too easy to take COVID-19 as an excuse,” said Julien Lemarie, a 35-year-old Hop mechanic demonstrating at the airport. “The scale of this plan… it’s enormous, it’s an absolute sledgehammer blow.”

 

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No doubt the EU will turn a blind eye to all these government bailouts!

Time for EmmanuelMacron to go?

As much as I loathe the man O'Leary at Ryanair did say any getting bailouts were vultures on a cash drive.

7 BILLION? FFS

Workers tend to be the last concern of government.

They’re protecting their multimillionaire executives.

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