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Was convinced they could return - but now SAS wants to lay off 300 employees: 'Incredibly unreasonable' | Money | At the same time, DR SAS is hiring new staff in subsidiaries. It has not been easy to run an airline in recent years. Because with the corona, many planes have been forced to stand firmly planted on the ground, and passengers have had to stay at home. many lost their jobs. In addition to firing people, many employees were also repatriated from SAS. Over 500 cabin crew employed by the main company SAS Scandinavia voluntarily chose to go on unpaid leave for two years to avoid redundancies with the conviction that they could return when the planes returned. On the wings. We find it completely unreasonable. Christina Ceré, President of the Cabin Attendants Union , that they can not return when their leave period expires in June.They can now expect a termination via a letter on e-Boks, which will be sent out today.This tells the chairman of the Cabin Attendants Union, Christa Ceré.- We stand with an agreement that has now been broken by SAS, as they have chosen not to call back colleagues, as production has resumed, she says. And she is very incomprehensible to the situation. - We experience it completely unreasonable. We now stand and have to say goodbye to 300 really good, colleagues who really should have had jobs and space. Maybe not all of them, but at least a large part, says Christa Ceré. At the same time as SAS is laying off employees for the almost 300 cabin people, the company is hiring new cabin crew in newly created ones - SAS Connect and SAS Link. They have to start all over again. President of the Cabin Attendants Union- We tried to make a common solution, but I had not imagined that SAS would run from it and start recruiting to two staffing agencies, says Christa Ceré and continues: - I think it is incredibly unreasonable, and they have in a way abused the corona crisis to make this maneuver. Could this be a result of you standing firm on your terms and not meeting SAS enough? - Is there anything we have done, is that just it. We have been through several for two decades and have several times in terms, working hours and salary. We have a very competitive agreement with SAS, says Christa Ceré. According to Cabin Attendance Union, the employees in the two new ones come to a worse agreement with a lower salary than the one the employees on leave have. The dismissed employees can apply for jobs in the new ones, but it's not something the Cabin Attendants Union recommends.- It's never nice to be fired, but it also means they have to start over. They have to apply for their position again, they do not include seniority, and they come to an agreement with reduced salary and terms of employment, says Christa Ceré. Hear in the video below how Cabin Attendants Union experiences the case. SAS itself does not think the company is breaking an agreement.In a written response to Nyheder, SAS writes that the cabin crew on leave has been promised a re-employment to the extent that SAS Scandinavia has needed to re-employ staff.- It is a process that is underway with the agreement, we entered into at the beginning of when we had to lay off many of our employees. These terminations apply to SAS Scandinavia, and we follow the agreement we have entered into with these employees, writes SAS.- Link and Connect are two separate companies, and the agreement we entered into with the cabin crew who went on leave has nothing to do with these companies to do. They have leave from SAS Scandinavia, they write further. SAS confirms that almost 300 employees have received one, and 180 employees have returned during the leave period.