{"id":336300,"date":"2020-02-06T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336300"},"modified":"2020-02-06T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T06:25:42","slug":"cathay-pacific-asks-staff-to-take-unpaid-leave-amid-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cathay-pacific-asks-staff-to-take-unpaid-leave-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathay Pacific asks staff to take unpaid leave amid coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific is asking its entire workforce to take up to three weeks of unpaid leave, its CEO announced on Wednesday, as the airline faces a crisis in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak. <\/p>\n<p>The request lays bare desperate times at Cathay, which was hammered last year by months of political chaos and protests in Hong Kong and is now being further hurt by the fallout from the virus outbreak. <\/p>\n<p>In a video message to the company\u2019s 27,000 employees, airline boss Augustus Tang said they were being asked to take up to three weeks leave with no pay between March and June. \u201cI am hoping all of you will participate, from our frontline employees to our senior leaders, and share in our current challenges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific is asking its entire workforce to take up to three weeks of unpaid leave, its CEO announced on Wednesday, as the airline faces a crisis in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak. The request lays bare desperate times at Cathay, which was hammered last year by months of political chaos and protests in Hong Kong and is now being further hurt by the fallout from the virus outbreak. In a video message to the company\u2019s 27,000 employees, airline boss Augustus Tang said they were being asked to take up to three weeks leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}