Regional airline LIAT job cuts

There are fears that a redundancy exercise at regional airline LIAT could stall this weekend’s talks between unions and the airline’s management.



More than 70 positions across the LIAT network have been made redundant.



However, union leaders could not say whether the job cuts would trigger industrial action.



LIAT closed its city ticketing offices and issued redundancy letters earlier this week, advising ticketing staff that their services would no longer be needed at the end of June.



Senator Chester Humphrey, who leads a regional consultative committee of trade unions within LIAT’s regional network, said the action by LIAT’s management has placed this weekend’s scheduled talks at the Antigua-based headquarters in jeopardy.



Unions have advised workers not to take the redundancy packages and accused the airline of offering the packages before finalising details.