Southwest is offering buyouts to airport employees and blaming Boeing for the task cuts

Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts to ground employees at numerous of its airports, and it’s blaming Boeing for the decreases

DALLAS — DALLAS (AP) —

Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts and extended leaves of lack to airport employees to prevent what it calls “overstaffing in specific places,” which it blames on a scarcity of brand-new aircrafts from Boeing.

The relocation on Monday comes as a hedge fund presses Southwest to boost revenues and increase the stock rate, which hasactually fallen greatly consideringthat early 2021.

A Southwest representative stated the provides of “voluntary separation” are minimal to 18 airports. The business decreased to recognize the airports or state how numerous tasks it hopes to getridof.

All the targeted tasks are in ground operations, consistingof client service representatives, luggage handlers and freight employees. Pilots and flight attendants are not consistedof in the buyout deal, the representative stated.

Southwest authorities have stated that the Dallas-based airlinecompany strategies to end this year with 2,000 less employees than it began. That is after Southwest grew from 66,600 to almost 75,000 workers last year. The figures count part-timers as half.

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