COVID-19: Thousands of aircrew redundant

No rights for agency & self-employed pilots.

“Agreement terminated”, “your services no longer required”, “your last salary may not be paid”. This is what thousands of ‘self-employed’ and contractor pilots and cabin crew have been told by airlines or staffing agencies, over the past few weeks. The COVID-19 crisis might have grounded most of the global airline industry, but the rights of atypically employed aircrew had no further to fall.

Publicerad 2021-12-01 av Rebecca