{"id":361402,"date":"2020-07-06T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361402"},"modified":"2020-07-06T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:21:00","slug":"virus-hammered-air-france-announces-7500-job-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virus-hammered-air-france-announces-7500-job-cuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus-hammered Air France announces 7,500 job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air France and regional subsidiary Hop announced 7,500 job cuts Friday after the virus pandemic grounded most flights and darkened prospects for future air travel.<\/p>\n<p>Activists from multiple unions protested at Air France headquarters at Paris\u2019 Charles de Gaulle Airport as talks began Friday morning about future job prospects at France\u2019s flagship airline.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re particularly angry that the French government didn\u2019t require Air France to protect jobs when it won 7 billion euros ($8 billion) in state bailout funds in May. Workers warned that the job cuts will ripple across the French economy, and said bailout funds should be used to rebuild the company instead of pushing people into unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France and regional subsidiary Hop announced 7,500 job cuts Friday after the virus pandemic grounded most flights and darkened prospects for future air travel. Activists from multiple unions protested at Air France headquarters at Paris\u2019 Charles de Gaulle Airport as talks began Friday morning about future job prospects at France\u2019s flagship airline. They\u2019re particularly angry that the French government didn\u2019t require Air France to protect jobs when it won 7 billion euros ($8 billion) in state bailout funds in May. Workers warned that the job cuts will ripple across the French economy, and said bailout funds should be used [&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-361402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361402","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=361402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}