Vida-Liebhart calls for fair standards for flight personnel, instead of letting terminated workers go back to work under worse conditions.

Like yesterday in public For the first time since the pandemic, 250 positions for flight attendants at AUA sister Eurowings in Germany have also been advertised. "Lufthansa is using the corona pandemic to dismantle workforce rights," criticizes Daniel Liebhart, chairman of the aviation department in the Vida union, against this background. The Lufthansa Group has announced massive job cuts across Europe, as in Austria, which will continue to be implemented despite the increasing number of air traffic, says Liebhart, justifying his criticism.

“On the other hand, during the pandemic in Germany, the group founded the company Eurowings Discover, which flies across Europe without a collective agreement or co-determination rights for the workforce. For this company, the Lufthansa Group now wants to recruit its employees who were dismissed during the pandemic so that they can work in their usual jobs again under poorer conditions. In doing so, the group is abandoning its social responsibility and following in the footsteps of other notoriously well-known airlines that deliberately circumvent employee rights, ”criticizes Liebhart.

Instead of throwing money into new dumping companies in order to circumvent existing rights of employees, the union calls on the Lufthansa Group to work actively to preserve existing jobs. The internal Lufthansa dumping competition, artificially created by this large number of group companies, is a business in which everyone will lose, and therefore also the completely wrong answer to the still missing fair rules of the game in the industry.

The Lufthansa Executive Board should work with the trade unions to demand rules for fair competition in politics. The governments of Austria and Germany are also called upon to act. “You finally supported the AUA and Lufthansa with billions of euros and are now just watching the downsizing. In addition, neither the national nor the European legislation has still not kept its promises regarding the urgently needed fair labor standards for flight personnel, ”Liebhart concludes.