Is there actually any jurisdiction across Europe which prevents or seriously complicates the use of unpaid leave? As far as I know, the official reason to proceed to large-scale layoffs in an otherwise growing company was that "it was too difficult to coordinate measures to protect employment across such a large number of countries, all with their different jurisdictions". Which is surprising. Surely unpaid leave on a rotable basis between crews would have been easier to arrange than termination of a ton of contracts, followed by a new round of recruitment and tents and hundreds of new assessments less than three months later?