St John’s, Antigua: More then 20 employees of LIAT’s cargo department have been made redundant, just over one year after the company launched the intra Caribbean service, affected employees said, according to a report in the Antigua Observer.
A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said of the 28 employees who service the Cargo and Quick Pak Department, only three were spared the plight of redundancy, the Observer reported.
Employees received their letters last week informing them that their services would no longer be required as of April 15, 2012. The Cargo and Quick Pak Department has been outsourced to the Barbados based Caribbean Airport Services.
The employees, some of whom have worked with the company for more than a decade, are expected to meet with their bargaining agent, the Antigua & Barbuda Workers Union, ABWU, today, the Observer reported.
One of the employees, who spoke with the Observer on the condition that his name would not be revealed, took issue with the manner of the employees’ dismissal, describing it as “unfair.”
The Observer said that when contacted for a comment, LIAT’s Corporate Communication Manager Desmond Brown said, “I do not have a comment on this matter at this time.”
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