[장현경 제작] Photo compositing/illustrationAs China Eastern Airlines, the national airline of China, suffered a difficult business situation due to the COVID-19 outbreak, it was revealed that only Korean employees were laid off while leaving employees in other countries.
According to Jeong Il-young, a member of the National Assembly’s Planning and Finance Committee, a member of the National Assembly’s Planning and Finance Committee, China Eastern, one of the largest foreign airlines employing Korea, unilaterally refused to renew the contract for 73 contract crew members in March last year.
After receiving an application for paid leave from employees saying that they would apply for the government’s employment maintenance subsidy, the company unilaterally refused to renew the contract without receiving the subsidy after a month.
As a result of the investigation by Rep. Chung’s office, it was revealed that Eastern Airlines is retaining its employees on paid leave for flight attendants in China, Japan and Europe.
“Even though Eastern Airlines’ routes between Korea and China have been restored to about 70 flights per month, all of them are operated by Chinese flight attendants,” said an official from the Office of the National Assembly member Jeong. there,” he said.
The flight attendants, whose application for renewal of the contract was rejected, filed a lawsuit to confirm the invalidity of their dismissal with the Seoul Central District Court, continuing the lawsuit until now.
Rep. Jung said, “We need to strictly supervise whether foreign airlines and other foreign companies maintain their employment so that there are no young people who lose their jobs due to COVID-19 and suffer from lawsuits.”
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