BA faces legal challenge over cabin crew plans.Summary: Unite is to launch a legal challenge against British Airways' plans to impose new pay and conditions on 14,000 cabin crew cabin crew cabin n (Aviat) → équipage m . Unite is to launch a legal challenge against British Airways' plans to impose new pay and conditions on 14,000 cabin crew staff. The union said it will apply for a High Court injunction injunction, in law, order of a court directing a party to perform a certain act or to refrain from an act or acts. The injunction, which developed as the main remedy in equity, is used especially where money damages would not satisfy a plaintiff's claim, or to "against the imposition The printing of pages on a single sheet of paper in a particular order so that they come out in the correct sequence when cut and folded. of new contracts" for the cabin crew, which it says are due to be brought in on November November: see month. 16. The action is separate to a ballot for industrial action which is also planned. The move comes as BA faces possible Christmas strikes following a lengthy and unresolved Not completed; not finished; not linked together. See resolve. dispute over its cost-cutting proposals. BA has announced plans to cut staff numbers by 3,700, in addition to a reduction of around 2,500 achieved between June 2008 and March 2009. Earlier this week, BA said it was "extremely disappointed" at the move to ballot workers, insisting it was not planning to change terms and conditions of current crew. But Unite said it had "no alternative" but to ballot its members in a bid to persuade BA not to impose "unacceptable contractual changes". Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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