Southwest Airlines says it will not renew employees after the payroll expansion included in the coronavirus aid package that President Trump
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US carriers received $ 15 billion in the $ 900 billion package, expanding the Payroll Support Program (PSP) for the industry. Under the terms of the aid, airlines will have to keep all their employees on their payroll through March 31 and will have to call back anyone who was given leave in October.
“The new law will provide payroll support for all Southwest employees through March 31, 2021. Given this fact, we currently do not anticipate the need to implement leave or pay cuts next year,” CEO Gary Kelly told employees Monday.
PSP was an important provision of last spring’s CARES Act and prevented airline leave until October. Since then, American Airlines and United Airlines have granted leave of 32,000 employees, and Southwest warned in December that 6,800 employees could be on leave if the government failed to act.
Southwest has never had layoffs since it was founded 50 years ago and is one of the most profitable major US carriers.
Kelly thanked Sen. Roger Wicker
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“I have to emphasize that dozens of government leaders deserve credit; however, these individuals deserve individual recognition, ”he said.