Latest move by airline to ‘include clarity on the numbers’ but no mention of when company will issue new agreement
British Airways withdrew a compensation offer to Hong Kong cabin crew it axed earlier this week and promised to revise the deal and extend its deadline after dozens protested against the mass lay-off.
Britain’s flagship carrier notified sacked staff through an email on Saturday that it would revise its previous offer of an ex gratia payment and extend the deadline for the attendants to accept the separation offer to next Friday.
“The content of the agreement will see very little change but will include clarity on the numbers,” the email stated.
But the message did not mention when the company would issue the new agreement.
The association described the extended deadline as “still unreasonable”.
“Assuming the earliest they would be able to give the new offer is early next week, that still leaves us a few days to respond,” the association’s general secretary Carol Ng Man-yee said.
