The Lufthansa and the cabin Union Ufo announced on Wednesday night. The package includes, according to UFO, a four-year employment protection and a savings volume of over half a billion euros by the end of 2023. Lufthansa informed, among other things, compensation would be exposed to increases as well as contributions to occupational pension temporarily reduced.

The Lufthansa is this Thursday at a fork in the road. The company's shareholders decide at the extraordinary General meeting (beginning at 12: 00 noon) whether you want to leave the state for around 300 million euros as a shareholder get in or not. Thus, the nine-billion Euro rescue package that had been negotiated in the weeks previously tedious between Frankfurt, Berlin and Brussels is connected to. The state bursts at the entry into the share capital, the rest of the rescue package from the silent participation and the KfW loan once obsolete.

Michael Niggemann, chief human resources and legal of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, described the conclusion as an important Signal to employees, to shareholders and the extraordinary General meeting. "We want to conditional operation cancellations in the cabin of the Lufthansa avoid." The Ufo-Chairman Daniel Flohr said, the announced staff reduction will not do, only without the need for redundancies in the cabin, the Ufo and Lufthansa proven after years of violent clashes now responsible Certification and ability to act.

Lufthansa has reported to 22,000 cabin staff. The agreements still required the consent of the Ufo members.

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