Denmark: controversy about Chinese flight attendants employed out of collective agreements

The Scandinavian airline SAS is confronted to an opposition from the Danish union for the cabin staff for appealing to Chinese flight attendants not submitted to the kingdom's collective conventions. The Danish government refused, at least temporarily, to amend the law on foreigners in the way the airline wants it. (Ref. 070316)
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For a year, the airline has been employing 34 Chinese flight attendants living in Beijing to answer the needs of its customers flying between this metropolis and the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Arguing on the fact that these people live in China and only spend very little time on the Danish soil – between two flights – SAS deemed that they should not be submitted to the collective agreements in effect in the Scandinavian country. “This is not like Polish workers coming to Denmark to work and pa

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