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Chamber and committees

Airline Redundancies

  • Submitted by: Alex Neil, Airdrie and Shotts, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • Motion reference: S5M-21843

That the Parliament, while recognising the scale of the challenges facing the aviation industry worldwide as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, expresses deep concern at what it sees as the unnecessarily excessive scale of redundancies and wage cuts being imposed by some airlines, such as BA; condemns what it considers the dictatorial, aggressive, unscrupulous and contemptuous attitudes adopted towards employees by some airlines, and calls for the urgent withdrawal of the threat of mass job losses and for the airlines to work constructively with their employees, trade unions and the UK Government to map out a way forward that allows the industry to take appropriate measures to deal with the immediate challenges, while minimising job losses, avoiding real-term wage cuts, and putting appropriate plans in place for commercial resilience and recovery.


Supported by: George Adam, Clare Adamson, Neil Bibby, Willie Coffey, Angela Constance, Annabelle Ewing, Neil Findlay, Kenneth Gibson, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Gordon MacDonald, Fulton MacGregor, Rona Mackay, Ruth Maguire, Mark McDonald, Pauline McNeill, Gil Paterson, Gail Ross, Elaine Smith, David Torrance, Sandra White