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EMIRATESEmirates Pauses Mass Lay-Off’s But Denies it Was Because Three Crew Members Took Their Own Lives
11TH JUNE 2020

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Emirates has allegedly applied the emergency brakes on a wave of mass lay-off’s affecting cabin crew and pilots after three crew members reportedly died by suicide. The redundancy meetings were set to continue at Emirates’ crew training facility in Dubai on Thursday but crew members invited for the so-called ‘business update’ meetings were told late last night they had been postponed after news of the tragic deaths started to emerge.
Emirates said in a short statement: “We can confirm that the news is untrue and request not to spread rumours” after reports swept through Emirates’ 20,000+ strong crew community on Wednesday night. Sources claim three crew members died by suicide in an airline-owned accommodation block in Dubai. One crew member was said to be a pilot.

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On Tuesday, it emerged that hundreds of cabin crew and pilots had been ordered to attend meetings where they were informed their jobs were being made redundant and they would be leaving the company in September. In a letter handed to the affected crew, Emirates cited the “severe impact” that the COVID-19 pandemic had wreaked upon the entire aviation industry for the reason behind their dismissal.

Emirates’ chairman and chief executive Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum is said to have called a halt to the mass dismissals on Wednesday because he was unhappy with how it was being handled. While many crew have had one-to-one meetings, there have been reports of some group dismissal sessions.
Until only a couple of weeks ago, many crew said they had been led to believe that mandatory wage cuts would be enough to prevent lay-offs at the government-owned airline. A spokesperson for the carrier then admitted that “a few” employees would be made redundant without giving any indication of how many would be impacted.
It has since emerged that hundreds of cabin crew and pilots have already been fired as Emirates urgently seeks to slash costs in the wake of the Corona crisis. Some media reports suggest at least 600 pilots have been made redundant in the last couple of days, while sources claim figures of active cabin crew numbers have dropped by over 700 this week.

 

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