{"id":339268,"date":"2020-02-27T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339268"},"modified":"2020-02-27T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:42:25","slug":"lufthansa-says-to-freeze-hiring-cut-costs-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lufthansa-says-to-freeze-hiring-cut-costs-over-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa says to freeze hiring, cut costs over coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT: German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it would freeze new hires and use unpaid leave and additional short-time work to cut costs to help cushion the economic impact of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To counteract the economic impact of the coronavirus of the early stage,&#8221; the group, which also owns carriers Austrian and Swiss, said in a statement that &#8220;all new hires&#8230; will be reassessed, suspended or deferred&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Employees would be offered unpaid leave and more part-time work and the group would also seek to cut administrative costs, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT: German airline Lufthansa said Wednesday it would freeze new hires and use unpaid leave and additional short-time work to cut costs to help cushion the economic impact of the novel coronavirus. &#8220;To counteract the economic impact of the coronavirus of the early stage,&#8221; the group, which also owns carriers Austrian and Swiss, said in a statement that &#8220;all new hires&#8230; will be reassessed, suspended or deferred&#8221;. Employees would be offered unpaid leave and more part-time work and the group would also seek to cut administrative costs, it said.<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339268","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=339268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}