Philippine Airlines cuts 30 per cent of workforce
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines is shedding more than 2,000 jobs this month.
PAL employees were informed this week of the layoffs with about half being involuntary separations.
It includes workers across all departments and amounts to about 30% of the total workforce.
The airline is in the throes of a comoany-wide restructuring to stay in business.
"Philippine Airlines is a long way from full recovery. Much work has already been done, but to complete the restructuring we now have to take the painful, but necessary action of completing the manpower reduction plan," airline President Gilbert Santa Maria wrote in an internal memo.
PAL had previously implemented temporary furloughs and flexible working to avoid compulsory job cuts.
"We began 2021 with the slow and hopeful recovery of our domestic and international flight demand, although it has been tempered by fresh travel restrictions imposed by the Philippines, the US, and several other countries," Santa Maria added.
"The company is working hard to keep Philippine Airlines in the air.."
Written by Ray Montgomery, Asia Editor
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