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‘Unacceptable’ Starmer calls for BA to lose slots over treatment of staff

Trade union Unite has accused the airline of planning to rehire employees who survive job cuts on worse terms and conditions.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-07-15 15:16
in Business and Economics
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Sir Keir Starmer has backed calls for British Airways to lose some of its lucrative Heathrow slots over the treatment of its workforce.

The Labour leader claimed there should be consequences for the airline’s actions and urged Boris Johnson to intervene.

British Airways is proposing to cut up to 12,000 jobs due to the collapse in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

British Airways has insisted its proposals have been put forward with a view to consultation, adding that no decisions have been taken with regard to actual redundancies.

Trade union Unite has accused the company of planning a “fire and rehire” system which will involve remaining employees having their terms and conditions downgraded.

Slots – which give an airline the right to take off and land at an airport – can be worth several million pounds at Heathrow, where British Airways holds the majority.

Worse conditions

They are generally allocated to incumbent airlines, but last week more than 100 MPs backed calls for the rules to be amended in response to the airline’s actions.

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At Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir said: “Alongside the 12,000 redundancies already announced, BA is trying to force through the rehiring of the remaining 30,000 workers on worse terms and conditions.

“That is totally unacceptable and it is a warning shot to many other working people.”

He added: “Will the Prime Minister now personally intervene and make clear that actions like those at BA cannot be allowed to stand without consequences for landing slots?”

Mr Johnson said: “Let’s be absolutely clear, British Airways and many other companies are in severe difficulties at the moment and we cannot, I’m afraid, simply with a magic wand ensure that every single job that was being done before the crisis is retained after the crisis.

“What we can do and what we are doing is encouraging companies to keep their workers on with the Job Retention Scheme, with the Job Retention Bonus and with a massive programme in investing in this country, a £600 million investment programme in this country to build, build, build and create jobs, jobs, jobs.”

In a recent letter to staff, British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz wrote that “every slot lost will lead to jobs in BA being permanently lost”.

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