Manston Airport launch operational review
26.03.11
Jobs could be lost at Kent International Airport (Manston) after it launched a wide scale review of all staff. Charles Buchanan, chief executive of Infratil, the company which owns the airport, said it was reviewing ‘working patterns and conditions of all staff’. The consultation will last for at least 90 days.
Mr Buchanan said: ‘We have more than 100 employees at Manston, many of whom have been with us for years and joined when the airport was under different ownership. We are now in a situation where some of the working arrangements we have in place do not match the current activity of the business. This is something we must rectify to ensure the airport has a sustainable future and that we match our resources to the needs of our customers.’
He said that Infratil is not planning to ‘identify significant redundancies’, but added: ‘At this stage, I can't guarantee that there won't be job losses. We are also reviewing all our external contracts to consider which of these could be performed more effectively in-house, possibly creating new positions at the airport. As the consultation will last a minimum of three months it is impossible to say what the outcome will be.’
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