{"id":345082,"date":"2020-04-03T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345082"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:05:09","slug":"coronavirus-crisis-boeing-announces-voluntary-layoff-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-crisis-boeing-announces-voluntary-layoff-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus crisis: Boeing announces voluntary layoff plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Boeing unveiled a voluntary worker layoff programme Thursday, telling employees that it hoped to avoid &#8220;other workforce actions&#8221; as the aviation industry reels from the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative was announced by Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun, who said such belt-tightening was needed amid the hit to the industry caused by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that we start adjusting to our new reality now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing&#8217;s financial picture was already a bit cloudy prior to the coronavirus outbreak because of the crisis surrounding the 737 MAX, which has been grounded for more than a year following two fatal crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Boeing unveiled a voluntary worker layoff programme Thursday, telling employees that it hoped to avoid &#8220;other workforce actions&#8221; as the aviation industry reels from the coronavirus crisis. The initiative was announced by Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun, who said such belt-tightening was needed amid the hit to the industry caused by the pandemic. &#8220;It&#8217;s important that we start adjusting to our new reality now,&#8221; he said. Boeing&#8217;s financial picture was already a bit cloudy prior to the coronavirus outbreak because of the crisis surrounding the 737 MAX, which has been grounded for more than a year following two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345082","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}