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Transportation / Storage 51 - Air transport 51.1 - Passenger air transport 51.10 - Passenger air transport
330 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 February 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Low cost airline Easy Jet has announced that it is to create 330 new jobs across its UK bases.
Trade union BALPA has critisised the contracts being offered saying that they were "take it or leave it" precarious work and should be replaced with more permanent contracts.
A timeline for the restructuring has yet to be announced.
Sources
1 February 2013: Belfast Telegraph
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Easy Jet, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74897, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/74897.