Exposed: How Qatar Airways risked lives of flight attendants for coronavirus PR stunt
الملخص
Date Reported: 22 مايو 2020
الموقع: قطر
الشركات
Qatar Airways - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - آسيا والمحيط الهادىء , النقل: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
الترهيب والتهديد , Personal Healthالرد
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
الإجراءات المتخذة: None reported. Qatar Airways did not respond to the Resource Centre's request for comment.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
“We had no choice. We were forced to work on these flights or be fired. Managers would threaten us using abusive language, saying things like, ‘Take this flight or go back to your third-world country’,” said a Qatar Airways flight attendant from a South Asian country...
“Some staff with good looks or who are favorites of the management, especially Europeans, were asked to stage an act for CNN that (suggested) we were very happy flying health-care workers... the (cabin) staff that were forced to work on those flights were given only threats"...
One criterion for deciding [redundancies]... is whether they have served the airline for more than 15 years.
This has reinforced the notion, rightly or wrongly, that ageism is ingrained in Qatar Airways’ hiring and firing policies.