By Yow Hong Chieh
Mar 23, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar twenty-three Loss-making Malaysia Airlines (MAS) denied currently claims by an in-house union which it was forcing employees to quit in order to "bulk transfer" staff to a brand brand new sister airline. The dwindle conduit pronounced a MAS Employees Union's (Maseu) allegations were "inaccurate" as well as "misleading" as applications to a still-unnamed short-haul service were utterly voluntary.
"Short-listed candidates will afterwards be invited for a formal interview. Successful candidates will be offering employment underneath conditions as well as conditions of a brand brand new airline, together with salaries as well as benefits.
"Upon usurpation a suggest from a brand brand new airline, successful candidates will afterwards be required to tender their resignation to Malaysia Airlines," MAS pronounced in a statement.
It added which over 850 MAS employees had applied to stick upon a brand brand new regional off-shoot inside of a week of an internal presentation for a broad variety of positions.
MAS added which it remained committed to enchanting with stakeholders, together with employees as well as unions, to realize a national carrier's brand brand new commercial operation devise as well as have MAS a improved place to work.
Maseu secretary-general Abdul Malek Ariff pronounced earlier this week a budding apportion had mooted a MAS-AirAsia share barter but not government decisions, such as due cuts to salaries as well as benefits.
The share barter as well as concomitant collaboration with AirAsia denounced last Aug was ostensible to assistance put MAS, which not long ago posted a biggest ever annual loss, behind upon firmer financial footing.
The idea was to have a little of a commercial operation astuteness which took ! AirAsia from a two-plane outfit to Asia's largest bill airline in only 10 years massage off upon a dwindle carrier.
Following a share swap, a government group led by brand brand new handling director Ahmad Jauhari Yahya put together a commercial operation turnaround devise in Dec to assistance propel MAS behind to profitability.
The management's efforts to restructure a airline as well as put it a more rival position, however, have caused attrition with a unions as well as employees associations.
The Malaysian Insiderreported upon Mar 16 which Putrajaya is mulling a special entity to take MAS off a hands of a categorical shareholders if a Najib administration department caves in to unions as well as unravels a share swap.
It is accepted Khazanah may divest a interest in MAS before a general suggest is made for a superfluous shares, together with those owned by Tune Air, AirAsia co-founder Tan Sri Tony Fernandes's holding company.
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