Babcock Spain announces intention to cut its employees salaries up to 30%
Babcock MCS Spain and Babcock Fleet Spain, wich operate the majority of the helicopter emergency services in Spain under local and national Government contracts (SAR; Fire fighting; EMS; border control, etc, and also O&G), informed their employees of the intention to lower their 1200 staff salaries of up to 30% (affecting mostly the pilots salaries). This, while the board has increased their own salaries on the past year by 26,8%
There is a strike going on at the moment, but since the Spanish laws declare the obligation of the personal involved in emergency services to perform them with 100% availability (with all personnel involved in these emergency services still working fulltime while on strike), and by so, left without effective tools to arrest this situation, there is an expected downturn of the future finantial conditions of the personnel involved with the Helicopter aviation sector in Spain, since beeing the biggest operator here, it should set the new baseline for salaries, even with other operators. This are hard times . . .
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