Dr. Ting: Delta employee vaccination rate reaches 82%
Delta has increased its employee vaccination rate to 82% in the three weeks since announcing a $200 monthly health insurance surcharge for unvaccinated workers, Chief Health Officer Dr. Henry Ting said in an interview with CNN. Since the onset of the pandemic, Delta has strived to put its employees and customers first by making vaccinations […]
Singapore Airlines hopes to be world’s first fully-vaccinated airline
Singapore’s national carrier is hoping to become the world’s first airline to get all of its crew members vaccinated against Covid-19. Singapore Airlines (SIA) confirmed to CNN Travel that all of their crew members — including pilots, gate agents, flight attendants and anyone whose job requires contact with the public — have been offered free […]
Delta named ‘Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion,’ earning perfect score for 5th year in a row
Delta’s continued focus on advancing disability inclusion throughout the business has again been recognized. The company was honored as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” for the fifth consecutive year by the Disability Equality index, a prominent tool for Fortune 1000 companies to gauge their level of disability workplace inclusion against competitors. “Our […]
Air Canada to immediately rehire more than 16,000 workers
More than 16,000 workers laid off by Air Canada last week in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are being hired back by the airline. The news — first reported by the Star — was confirmed in a press release by the airline. The announcement comes after discussions between federal officials, the airline and its […]
Lufthansa plans 4500 new hires in 2020
Lufthansa Group is planning to make more than 4500 new hires in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2020, including 300 resulting from the Boeing 777 fleet integration at SWISS. Many of the hires — some 3000 — will be in Germany and are the result of a combination of staff replacement and job increases. About […]
LATAM Airlines to lay off 1,200 Brazilian employees: report
Chilean airline LATAM LTM.SN lay off some 1,200 airport-based employees in Brazil and replace them with workers from a services company in an apparent cost-cutting measure, according to a report in O Estado de S. Paulo on Wednesday. “The company has adopted measures so the change will have the least impact possible on workers,” the […]
Boeing ‘Antiques Road Show’ seeks employee memorabilia for exhibit
Boeing is reaching out to former and current employees, many of them multi-generational, to find out who has the best company memorabilia. On Friday March 11, and then on April 4, Boeing and the Seattle Museum of Flight will host what amounts to an Boeing-only «Antiques Road Show.» The popular show on public broadcasting had […]
