Irish Labour Relations Commission: Freeze Wages at Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus employees learned last night of a proposed survival plan for Ireland’s national airline, shortly after Servisair in Dublin said it planned to shed 250 more jobs.
Ireland’s Labour Relations Commission said a wage freeze should be imposed at Aer Lingus until April 2003 as well as a cut in overtime pay from double-time to time-and-three quarters. About 800 Aer Lingus employees have applied for voluntary redundancy out of a total of 2,026 jobs which the airline says have to be shed. Aer Lingus will decide on the proposals at a board meeting today.
The Labour Relations Commission has recommended that the proposals were accepted.