SAFETY GEAR. Metro Manila commuters wear face masks as protection from the novel coronavirus on February 3, 2020. Photo by Jire Carreon/Rapplermay lose their jobs in the next 6 months as businesses take a hit from the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 outbreak, a labor group said on Saturday, February 29.
"In TUCP discussions with unions leaders in other industries, they said the PAL retrenchment is just the beginning of the bigger adverse economic effect of the escalating outbreak of COVID-19 phenomenon," the labor group said. "The PAL retrenchment program and the travel bans will trigger more layoffs in several of its supply chains that includes hotels, restaurants, land transport service, logistics, catering and other suppliers of the airlines," Mendoza said.
PAL rank and file employees are still on a 15 days LWOP (leave without pay) every month upto now and they also arbitrarily removed guaranteed productivity of pilots yet PAL top management (GSM, Nilo, Alvin etc) are not on LWOP and just took a measly 10% pay cut starting July.
When the China teat goes dry.... Good opportunity for duterte to show us how to stand alone.