{"id":345148,"date":"2020-04-03T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345148"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:13:29","slug":"ba-to-lay-off-28000-employees-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ba-to-lay-off-28000-employees-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"BA to lay off 28,000 employees temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flagship airline British Airways will temporarily lay off 28,000 employees, or 60 per cent of its workforce, due to the coronavirus crisis which is paralysing the sector, trade union Unite announced on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed by BA, said it had \u201creached agreement with the company\u201d to use a version of the government\u2019s business support programme for around 28,000 staff, guaranteeing 80 per cent of salaries to avoid redundancies. <\/p>\n<p>But there will be no cap on earnings \u2014 set at \u00a32,500 per month under the government scheme \u2014 no unpaid temporary lay offs and no redundancies during the crisis, said the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flagship airline British Airways will temporarily lay off 28,000 employees, or 60 per cent of its workforce, due to the coronavirus crisis which is paralysing the sector, trade union Unite announced on Thursday. Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed by BA, said it had \u201creached agreement with the company\u201d to use a version of the government\u2019s business support programme for around 28,000 staff, guaranteeing 80 per cent of salaries to avoid redundancies. But there will be no cap on earnings \u2014 set at \u00a32,500 per month under the government scheme \u2014 no unpaid temporary lay offs and no redundancies [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345148","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=345148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}