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Croatia Airlines To Cancel Flights After Staff Went On Sick Leave

Politics ♦ Published: May 2, 2013; 17:42 ♦ (Vindobona)

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Croatia Airlines had to cancel 13 flights on May 1, after 25% of the airlines staff went on a sick leave, in what the heads of the airline consider a protest against changes to employment conditions.

Croatia Airlines To Cancel Flights After Staff Went On Sick Leave / Picture: © Croatia Airlines

At a press conference in Zagreb on May 1, the airline's CEO, Kresimir Kucko, told that 40 cabin crew members - 25% of the total staff - had taken a sick leave the previous day. Kucko said that an investigation had been started into why so many of the airline's staff had called in sick, explaining that three of the six unions represented in the company had not yet signed the new…