According to Al-Qabas newspaper, sources said that the senior management has no intention to end the services of Kuwaiti citizens who have exceeded the age of sixty, as was reported recently.
This comes in accordance with a plan that the Kuwaiti woman plans to implement now, after it stopped operations since the government took the precautionary measures to confront the Corona pandemic last March.
The sources confirmed that the statements of termination of services became in the possession of the directors of the departments in Kuwait to nominate the required number from each department separately.
In the midst of this gloomy economic climate and uncertainty, another source was surprised at how the annual bonus for workers was disbursed during the past month, in light of a severe crisis, not only Kuwaiti, but all airlines in the world, including the most important and largest companies in the region, that announced plans Austerity a while ago, to reduce the repercussions of the Corona virus, and those plans included reducing staff and reducing costs.
The source said that a committee had been formed from the higher management departments and the union of employees of the company to follow up the implementation of the plan to reduce the number of foreign employees, after the CEO took the decision in this regard, not included Kuwaiti or Gulf citizens or married couples married to Kuwaiti women and vice versa, to ensure the rights of employees and preserve Kuwaiti families, provided that the reduction is made according to the requirements and needs of each department, for example the Operations Department includes about 500 pilots (most of whom are Kuwaitis) and 1300 hosts and hostesses (most of them are foreigners), and therefore will be used to end the services of a large number of hosts.
The same source said that estimates of airline losses in the world during the current year will reach 314 billion dollars, the share of the Middle East region of which is about 24 billion, and the loss of 1.2 million jobs in the sector in the region will be reflected negatively.
