Estonian Air Plans to Lay Off 63 Employees out of 467
At first I did not really want to report about this. But then I started to remember how some people reacted when I wrote about the funny things going on around Estonian Air and I thought that, sometimes, being merciful is useless.
For the need to bring company’s activities into accordance with the situation on the aviation market, Estonian Air filed an application to Labour Inspectorate for layoffs.
Estonian Air has 467 employees and the company plans to lay off 63 of them.
Layoff plan affects the whole company – aviation staff and services on land, commercial and administrative departments. The management consulted employees before filing the application to Labour Inspectorate.
“Company’s management board gives its best to make these changes with ultimate care. We search for flexible options where it’s necessary and possible and also offer a support program for leaving employees,” Andrus Aljas, the President of Estonian Air said.
“The time of layoffs is hard and complicated time for all of our pilots. During the negotiations with management we’ve tried to relief the situation of those pilots that will be laid off as much as possible,” Rauno Meening, chairperson of Estonian Airline Aviation Trade Union and an Estonian Air pilot said.
Estonian Air will serve nearly 20 routes from Tallinn after layoffs and internal restructuring.Marge Tubalkain-Trell
on 17-12-2008 By Giovanni Angioni - Hot issues
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That s 13% of the staff... quite a big number. Hopefully a good strategy will follow to bring the airline back on the right track.
Ya, maybe SAS should take some lesssons from the Highly successful AirItalia.
It is wonderful to see how Italian Intelligence is applied to running a National Carrier.
Well..the first article about this bizzarre situation was exactly entitled "Estonian Air: a New Alitalia Sooner Than Expected?" because, even if for totally different reasons, the companies are facing a not so nice time.
The discussion of the Italian "intelligence" applied to our carrier is quite complicated and political tho, and for understanding it we should first understand the role State-owned companies plaied in the last century.
For a company as Alitalia, the budget was the less important thing ever. Most important was to place significant people in key-places to use whenever the ruling parties/coalition needed it.
About Estonian air is obviously different and more linked to the actual world situation than mismanagement. What I find funny, still, is the attitude some people have to keep hiding the problems or thinking that nothing will touch them....
as a pretty hostess said once "I am not worried. They fired who they had to and I kept my job."
True, Italians often suck when it is about profit and management and they excell when it is about cheating and corrupting.
But at least they know the meaning of the words "solidarity" and "strike".
Yes is true Giovanni. Solidarity and strike are important words in Italy. Here in Estonia even the word trade union is totally missing. Instead very popular words are: neoliberalism, fast capitalism, self-regulating power of markets. This is very funny...
People always hate to talk about when they are laid off. But as it has become every day's news headline since Yahoo started it with cutting 1500 of its task force last year, now a need of platform has been in demand where people can express their selves in words how they are feeling about their company, whey the got laid off was that justified or not.
And every thing they want to tell anonymously.And www.layoffgossip.com is providing you that platform.