Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Donal Moriarty:
We have not. I assume the Senator is referring to staff in Shannon Airport. Throughout the crisis, we have tried to align working hours and pay with the amount of work that needs to be done. We made some recent changes in respect of our staff at Shannon Airport by giving them an option to return to a work pool at 40% pay in preparation for a resumption of operations or a winter lay-off. We put a similar arrangement in place for our cabin crew at Shannon. We have also launched voluntary severance schemes and incentivised career break schemes for our cabin crew. We have not taken the step of offering our staff to the HSE for the purpose of contact tracing. To be honest, it is our assumption that there is sufficient availability within the public sector to provide that facility.
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