Lufthansa To Lay Off 22,000 Employees
German airline
company Lufthansa is among the companies that are badly affected
by the coronavirus outbreak in the industry.
The company announced that
it wants to negotiate collective crisis agreements with trade unions until 22
June, with the intention to negotiate the dismissal of 22,000 full-time
employees due to the economic crisis caused by the outbreak.
According to the statement
from the Lufthansa Group, it was stated that the layoffs will be in all units
of the company.
"Lufthansa's flight operations will be affected by the crisis, with 5,000 positions, 600 of which are pilots, 2,600 flight personnel, and 1,500 ground personnel."
In addition, the
maintenance and repair subsidiary Lufthansa Technik's workforce will be reduced
by 4,500 people, including 2,500 of them in Germany, 8,500 jobs worldwide due
to the restructuring of LSG Group, the provider of in-flight catering services
recorded to be affected.
Lufthansa AG, which has 135
thousand employees worldwide, came to the point of bankruptcy due to the
coronavirus epidemic that caused global travel restrictions.
The German
government protected the company from bankruptcy by providing a 9 billion euro
rescue package.
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