{"id":79226,"date":"2015-06-11T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=79226"},"modified":"2015-06-11T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T04:40:22","slug":"slowing-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=79226","title":{"rendered":"Slowing the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MALAYSIA Airlines is being threatened with what the National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) refers to as a \u0153tools down\u009d protest, effectively a strike, if the company does not revoke the separation scheme on the table in 48 hours, the countdown having begun yesterday. The carrier, which is a company that is technically bankrupt, has laid off all its 20,000 employees. Of the total, 6,000 have not been offered re-employment with the new entity, Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB). What Nufam wants is for all axed employees to be rehired and, then, offered a voluntary separation scheme (VSS), the common practice of commercial organisations that are sizing down. Nufam, however, despite being a recognised trade union representing flight attendants generally, is not recognised by the carrier and, presumably, this policy is being carried over into MAB.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1dy8t8w\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALAYSIA Airlines is being threatened with what the National Union of Flight Attendants Malaysia (Nufam) refers to as a \u0153tools down\u009d protest, effectively a strike,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79227,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79226\/revisions\/79227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}