The Moroccan Airline Pilots Association (AMPL) formulated a proposal to overcome the crisis of the Royal Air Maroc (RAM) which had put in place an austerity plan to deal with the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid- 19) providing, in particular, for the reduction of its fleet and the dismissal which affects flight personnel, but also ground personnel.
Affected by the Covid-19 crisis and the suspension of air links, RAM had drawn up a load reduction plan, notably by providing for the dismissal of 140 employees: 65 pilots, 59 cabin crew employees and 16 ground staff .
AMPL, supported by the Union Marocaine du Travail (UMT) union, presented its own formula for overcoming the RAM crisis without sacrificing a large part of the company’s employees.
“The Corps of the Technical Navigating Personnel is collectively prepared to take charge, by a corresponding reduction in its financial emoluments, of the cost of the reduction in the wage bill from which RAM would have benefited by proceeding with the planned economic redundancies of all RAM employees, to namely, the pilots, cabin crew and ground staff (i.e. 140 employees in total subject to the request for economic dismissal) “, indicates the Association in a letter addressed to the governor of Hay Hassani, Khadija Benchouikh, in his “capacity as Governor in charge of the study and, if applicable, authorizations of requests for collective redundancies for economic reasons (…)”.
Also according to the AMPL, a complete freeze on the payment of variable bonuses for all staff benefiting from this bonus would, on the basis of 2018 figures, make additional savings of 154 million dirhams, including 87 million for staff. technical flight crew (PNT) and 60 million for ground personnel. The association affirms its availability to sign an “agreement of solidarity and the future with the essential objective of preserving jobs.”
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