Exclusive | Cathay Pacific overseas operations to be affected by ‘review’ of workforce
Company admits audit will have an ‘impact’ but says it’s too early to tell if more jobs will be lost
Cathay Pacific Airways would start a “comprehensive review” of staffing at overseas airports and in its foreign offices, the airline’s human resources chief said.
The company acknowledged the jobs audit would have an “impact”. But it was too early to tell if the review would recommend further redundancies or just changes in workers’ roles.
“We’re starting a comprehensive review of our outports, how they work with HQ, which will have an impact on their own organisational structures,” Tom Owen, the airline’s human resources director, announced in the company’s staff magazine.
Owen also confirmed that the earlier restructuring of its head office was now complete. The redundancies in May marked the biggest round of job cuts by Hong Kong’s premier airline in 20 years.
“We haven’t touched on the outports,” a Cathay Pacific source said, adding it was “the obvious next step, now that Hong Kong has been reorganised.”