Air Mauritius: employees refuse unpaid leave and part-time work
Airline employees association, Air Mauritius technical support staff union, Union of employees of Air Mauritius and Private transport employees union, are not ready to make further sacrifices to ensure the survival of Air Mauritius. In a press release published on Sunday, September 27, and which Le Mauricien has taken cognizance of, the four unions believe that the wage cuts ranging from 40 to 60% already granted by their members, are largely sufficient.
"This sacrifice is already difficult to bear for families who depend on this income," says the negotiator of the platform bringing together his organizations. “Air Mauritius employees will not be able to accept more sacrifices. Especially while the state of Mauritius favors a foreign company to bring passengers back to Mauritius and grants traffic rights to other companies, to the detriment of the national company, ”explains Ivor Tan Yan.
To make themselves heard, these union movements announce the organization of a press conference in the street on Wednesday. On September 18, the directors of the company informed employees that as of October 1, they will take unpaid leave, or work part-time. According to Sattar Hajee Abdoula and Arvindsingh K. Gokhool, not all the measures taken so far to reduce the carrier's costs are sufficient.
Under provisional administration since April 22, Air Mauritius needs an injection of 10.3 billion rupees (260 million dollars) to honor its financial commitments. The company could lose around Rs 9 billion by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2021), if costs are not reduced in the short term. In June, the government pledged to inject an equivalent allocation to support it.
"This sacrifice is already difficult to bear for families who depend on this income," says the negotiator of the platform bringing together his organizations. “Air Mauritius employees will not be able to accept more sacrifices. Especially while the state of Mauritius favors a foreign company to bring passengers back to Mauritius and grants traffic rights to other companies, to the detriment of the national company, ”explains Ivor Tan Yan.
To make themselves heard, these union movements announce the organization of a press conference in the street on Wednesday. On September 18, the directors of the company informed employees that as of October 1, they will take unpaid leave, or work part-time. According to Sattar Hajee Abdoula and Arvindsingh K. Gokhool, not all the measures taken so far to reduce the carrier's costs are sufficient.
Under provisional administration since April 22, Air Mauritius needs an injection of 10.3 billion rupees (260 million dollars) to honor its financial commitments. The company could lose around Rs 9 billion by the end of the current fiscal year (March 2021), if costs are not reduced in the short term. In June, the government pledged to inject an equivalent allocation to support it.
Source: newsaero
