8 April 2020
Members of Unite employed by British Airways have overwhelmingly voted to approve the airline’s furlough deal.
The deal was agreed last week following long negotiations but remained subject to approval by a ballot of members.
Under the deal, BA will introduce a modified version of the government’s job retention scheme, with workers furloughed on 80% of pay. However, unlike the government scheme, there will be no cap on earnings.
Workers will be able to divert their pension contributions, which are 9-18% of earnings, into their pay for a short period of time.
There will be no unpaid temporary layoffs and there will be no redundancies during this period.
A redundancy process that had already begun has been halted.
