SAS threatens flagging of employees – HegnarOnline

SAS threatens flagging of employees – HegnarOnline

In a letter to the Ministry of Transport complaints SAS over what they see as unfair favoritism of competitor airlines, writes Aftenpostenog class struggle.

The airline is led by Bjørn Kjos can fly long-haul routes with low-paid Asian workers without work and residence permit in Norway, believes the competitor is unfair and based on an exemption Norwegian has received from the Norwegian Immigration Act.

In the letter to the Ministry threatens SAS that they must assess their employment policies unless the government ensures equal competition.

– Our position remains that we should rely on their own, permanent employees in Scandinavian conditions to live, work and pay their taxes in Scandinavia. However, we can not guarantee this forever if competitors get government permission to operate under different and far more favorable economic conditions, says director Knut Morten Johansen of SAS Aftenposten.

Transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen (FRP) will not comment on the letter from SAS. In an email to Aftenposten writes that it is the Ministry’s objective that the Norwegian aviation stakeholders should have equal conditions for their business.

Head of Information in English, Anne Sissel Skånvik, told the class struggle that the partially state-owned SAS should not shout so highly of discrimination.

– Just as SAS, Norwegian must have a foothold in the EU, and the fact that Norway is outside the EU gives airlines a competitive disadvantage when it comes to traffic rights. English has established a company in the EU and this company have applied to fly to the United States in the same way that we fly today, she points out.

For every hundred lobe SAS earned last year, the company spent 32 million to salaries and pensions. It’s the highest employee cost in the industry. English on its side with an employee cost of 17.4 percent of total revenues, according to figures compiled by research Capa center for Aviation and recently reprinted in a research report on Norwegian aviation future of Work Research. (© NTB)