Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 24 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on International Travel

Photo of Bríd SmithBríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair for letting me in again. I wanted to ask about the wage subsidy scheme which most of the airlines have been receiving from day one, yet they imposed pay cuts and job losses. There has been an advocacy to say that the State needs to step in and give more support. According to this submission, conditions are attached to state support given to Iberia, KLM and Air France such that those airlines cannot change workers' conditions, they have to protect jobs and they cannot create redundancies. I seek a comment on that. If the State were to give more support on top of the wage subsidy scheme, how would it attach similar restrictions to the employer to stop abuse of the worker?

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