On 09 November 2020 the fourth meeting referred to as “Tripartite pour le secteur de l ´aviation” took place.
Since a principle agreement was reached in the meeting on 07 October 2020, Luxair and the Unions finalised in several meetings the details of the agreement, which was signed on 09 November 2020 by Luxair, the Unions and the government, affecting approximately 20% of Luxair’s current staff.
Half of the affected staff (265) will leave Luxair through one of the available early retirement schemes over the next three years.
The other half (approximately 300) should be requalified for other positions within Luxair or transferred to other companies, either on a permanent or temporary contract basis. At the same time the agreement provides the remaining staff at Luxair with a job guarantee for the duration of the agreement.
The rules for short-time work (chomage partiel) will be amended, allowing Luxair to place its remaining staff in short-time work during the restructuring process. This will amongst other staff affect all Luxair pilots, resulting in significant losses of income for our colleagues for un undetermined period of time.
Further to the Tripartite agreement, the Unions and Luxair Management agreed, that the Luxair Collective Work Agreement (CWA) will be renewed until the end of 2023, except for the annual time unit increases, which will be suspended for the three-year duration of the CWA extension.
Cargolux staff will not be directly affected by the Tripartite agreement or the restructuring at Luxair. Existing early retirement schemes, effectively at this time only the progressive early retirement scheme (préretraite progressive), will in principle remain available to qualifying Cargolux staff. In case you consider applying for this scheme, please get in touch with us.
It remains our position, which was clearly communicated again to the Managements of Cargolux and Luxair by the LCGB [link], that Luxair pilots who may become either permanently or temporary redundant, should be considered by Cargolux to fill open pilot positions. The examples of those colleagues of Lufthansa Cityline or Air Berlin, who joined Cargolux on fixed-term contracts, show what is possible and what did work in the past for the benefit of all involved; the airlines and the pilots. Again, to avoid any doubt, the ALPL Divisional Boards of Cargolux and Luxair agree, that such transfers can only be done respecting all provisions of the Cargolux CWA.
