The Senior Experts@LHT programme, launched in July 2023 by Lufthansa Technik, the maintenance subsidiary of the German airline group Lufthansa Group, seeks to prolong the working life of employees closing in on retirement as well as to hire or rehire senior staff who have recently retired. The programme has been devised as a pilot project that could be rolled out across the entire group.
Like many other projects, the Senior Experts@LHT retiree recruitment programme could well have been launched as early as 2019, were it not for the Covid-19 pandemic. Lufthansa Technik (LHT) had to let go of many temporary staff members as well as 300 employees on probation following the drastic decline in passenger transport. Three years on, the pandemic has subsided and air transport is experiencing a strong upturn.
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Thomas Schnee
Correspondent in Germany
As a Berlin correspondent for the French and Swiss press since the late 1990s, I cover a wide range of economic, political and social issues, with a particular focus on the German business and labour market. My areas of interest include co-determination, digitalisation, demographics and ESG/DEI policies.