Aer lingus employee push tactics
 

Aer Lingus faces 'push' memo storm ....Irish Independant

July 20, 2005 07:31
Aer Lingus has acknowledged the existence of a memo which outlined a number of factors designed to make life difficult for staff and encourage them to take voluntary redundancy.

The airline was reacting to a story in this morning's Irish Independent which concerns a leaked document prepared by the airline.

The confidential Aer Lingus plan comes from a provisional business strategy prepared by the airline for 2004. The strategy contains a list of what are called 'environmental push factors' - measures which could be used to encourage staff to avail of a voluntary redundancy programme.


The push factors listed in the plan range from changes to shift patterns which would be unsuitable to employees with families, to tedious training programmes for surplus pilots. The plan also suggested changing the cabin crew uniform in order to encourage cabin crew to leave.

A spokesperson for Aer Lingus acknowledged this morning that the plan did exist - but the spokesperson insisted that it was only a discussion document, that it was never implemented, nor would such a document ever be implemented.

The spokesperson for the airline would not say whether it disputed the content of the story in the Irish Independent.