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The pilots ‘ union Sepla has contested before the National court the dossier of Regulation of Temporary Employment (ERTE) presented by Air Europe last march, due to the consequences of the crisis of the coronavirus in the aviation sector, have confirmed to Efe juridical sources.
According to an advance this Friday, in The Country, the Sepla argues that the ERTE was applied in an “arbitrary and unilateral” and that there was no consultation with the workers ‘ representatives, a extreme reject from the airline , which ensures that it is keeping “a constant dialogue with all the unions,” on the conditions of application of the record “from the start”.
last march, Air Europa, which in Spain employs around 3,600 people in-flight -cabin crew and pilots – also as ground staff, mechanics and other support staff, communicated to the trade union sections the implementation of a STRONG due to force majeure, before the situation caused by the pandemic.
In that meeting with the representatives of the workers, in which the company did not specify the time in which it would extend the ERTE, was given a term of seven days to form a negotiating committee for face to define the need and the scope of the record.
Sources of Air Europe insist they have been kept informed workers up to the point that while “the FATE of force majeure does not force constitute monitoring committees , (the company) has kept unchanged its commitment to the dialogue”.
In this sense, highlighted, the airline “has shared with the trade unions up to date information on the evolution and forecasts of its activity”.
“how open we are to dialogue, these conversations can lead, and have led already to the approach proposed by the company, and the signing of the agreements,” says Air Europa, which asserts that “already have been signed with groups such as the crew of the passenger cabin”.
however, given the “confidentiality conditions” that govern this dialogue, the company can not give details of any specific proposal that may have or is not on the table”.
