{"id":365938,"date":"2020-08-03T10:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T04:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365938"},"modified":"2020-08-03T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:38:54","slug":"klm-airlines-announces-massive-layoffs-set-to-cut-nearly-5000-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/klm-airlines-announces-massive-layoffs-set-to-cut-nearly-5000-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"KLM airlines announces massive layoffs, set to cut nearly 5,000 positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic-stricken Dutch airlines, KLM has announced that it would cut 4,500 to 5,000 positions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;KLM is in the throes of a crisis of unprecedented magnitude,&#8221; Xinhua news agency quoted the airline as saying in a statement on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expectations are that the road to recovery will be long and fraught with uncertainty. This means that KLM&#8217;s structure and size must be rigorously adjusted even further in the years ahead.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As part of the measures, a total of 4,500 to 5,000 positions in the entire KLM Group, part of Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM, will cease to exist. <\/p>\n<p>This means that the workforce will be reduced to around 28,000 full-time equivalents (FTEs) in the course of 2021 from the current 33,000 FTEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic-stricken Dutch airlines, KLM has announced that it would cut 4,500 to 5,000 positions. &#8220;KLM is in the throes of a crisis of unprecedented magnitude,&#8221; Xinhua news agency quoted the airline as saying in a statement on Friday. &#8220;Expectations are that the road to recovery will be long and fraught with uncertainty. This means that KLM&#8217;s structure and size must be rigorously adjusted even further in the years ahead.&#8221; As part of the measures, a total of 4,500 to 5,000 positions in the entire KLM Group, part of Franco-Dutch airline Air France-KLM, will cease to exist. This means that [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365938","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=365938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}