Iberia today informed staff representatives of the convening of the Employment Commission of Passenger Cabin Crew for the consolidation of temporary contracts to permanent ones. In this way, a certain number of PCC, which will be set in the coming days during the negotiation, will become part of the company with an indefinite contract.
The meeting is scheduled for 8 September and will include an assessment of the development of hiring needs over the coming months and the transformation of temporary PCC contracts to fixed discontinuous ones.
This announcement by the PCC Employment Commission comes along with the announcement made yesterday by Iberia regarding 1,692 employees of its Airports division, which will be given permanent contracts; this is the most important improvement carried out in the airline’s Airports division to date, and will come into effect on 11 September, following further assessment of the productive needs of the 29 affected airports.
Commitment to Employment and Job Stability
As the airline recently announced, Iberia has also convened a Negotiation Table to work on the new agreements for all groups on 15 September, including the Collective Agreement with Cabin Crew.
The negotiation of the eighteenth agreement for PCC was called off in 2020 due to the Covid-19 crisis and is being resumed now that Iberia has a greater and more accurate sense of the outcome of the pandemic and the future scenarios the airline will face.
In this way, Iberia shows its commitment to job stability and employment guarantees, even in a context like the current one, following the most serious crisis in the history of the sector, and continues to work to reach agreements that improve the working conditions of its staff and allow it to consolidate a promising future for its business.
Iberia faces many challenges in an autumn/winter which is full of uncertainty due to inflation and high fuel prices, to which must be added the accumulation of €1,800 million in losses in 2020 and 2021, as well as the payment in the next few years of the substantial debt it acquired -nearly €1,000 million, of which €800 million are ICO credits-, to which must be added the future investments necessary to continue growing and to be able to offer its customers the best service on board.
