A 10 per cent cut in pay for certain staff at Manchester Airport for 12 months was agreed in an 'initial' deal struck between unions and airport bosses to protect the business and safeguard jobs amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the M.E.N.
can reveal. Workers would also take a fortnight of the next 12 weeks as annual leave. And the airport's owners also agreed with unions 'three-month career sabbaticals' where staff would be free to find paid work elsewhere.
MAG airport group however stressed the 'measures set out are those that would be implemented in the absence of any government support'.
The agreement was reached ahead of the government's announcement on Friday over paying workers' wages as part of a 'coronavirus job retention
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