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March 2, 2010 -
Unite the union on Monday denounced British Airways for moving to
overturn a recent ruling which said it must apply
The crew's union says BA's moves are a shameful attempt to persist with its policy of dismissing its female Hong Kong cabin crew at 45 years of age - and can continue to discriminate against its employees on both age and race grounds.
In January this
year the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) upheld an Employment Tribunal
2008 ruling that the airline was wrong to claim that the women's Hong
Kong nationality excluded them from the jurisdiction of |
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Unite national
officer for civil aviation Steve Turner said: "BA's continued
mistreatment of these women is shameful. We have appealed to BA not
to throw money at expensive lawyers so that they can squirm out of
their obligations, but to instead respect the tribunal's wishes that
these workers are covered by
"By continuing
to fight this, BA is seeking to carry on treating a group of its
workers as second class.
This reflects very badly on BA as an employer but it also
does profound damage to our country's reputation overseas to have
our national carrier scrapping in court to ensure it can sack female
workers at 45.
Unite took the
case to the EAT on behalf of one stewardess, Eliza Mak, and 16
colleagues. Eliza received her dismissal letter from BA when she
turned 45, despite having worked for the airline since 1988. BA
dismisses its female Hong Kong crew when they turn 45 and denies
them a pension, claiming its |
Unite has been
pushing for BA to accept that all its employees, wherever they may
reside, should be covered by the company's employment agreements,
including retirement age and pension rights. The January EAT ruling
would allow those crew dismissed at 45 by BA to have their claims for
discrimination heard in the
Unite was formed
by a merger between two of |
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