SIPTU has called on the Government to amend the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme to pay aviation workers 85% of their pre-pandemic earnings in order to maintain employment in the industry.
In a submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications Networks ahead of a meeting tomorrow, SIPTU aviation sector official Neil McGowan said the EWSS should become a short-time working scheme based on the German model, which delivers 85% of pre-Covid-19 wages.
However, the union insisted that firms availing of the EWSS should be subject to conditions, including not being allowed to implement compulsory redundancies.
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