Aer Lingus is not ruling out compulsory job cuts and closing bases at Cork and Shannon aiports as it grapples with Government travel restrictions. Sean Doyle, Aer Lingus chief executive, told staff on Friday that jobs would be cut on a “compulsory basis if necessary” but stressed that redundancies would be voluntary if possbile. “It was wholly improper to make comments like that given that we commenced the consultation process with Aer Lingus this week,” he said. Mr Doyle went on to tell workers there were no meaningful signs of an immediate restart to flights from Cork and Shannon airports. “Any financial support given to those airports needs to be made conditional on Aer Lingus maintaining the bases in both those airports,” he stressed, adding that Siptu represented 100 Aer Lingus workers in each.

Source: The Irish Times July 31, 2020 06:33 UTC