Qatar Airways changes its policy of sacking cabin crew for getting pregnant or getting married

Earlier this year Qatar Airways had won the airline of the year award for the third time at the annual Skytrax world awards at the Paris air show. But, it has now been shamed into relaxing its policy of sacking members of its cabin crew when they get pregnant or get married within their first five years of employment.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 28 August 2015.

International Transport Workers Federation president Paddy Crumlin has welcomed this move terming it as a "first victory" for staff rights.
Company executives have indicated that the restrictions had been phased out over the past six months not as a result of international criticism but after senior management began a review of working practices last year.
Qatar Airways has nearly 9,000 cabin crew and, around three-quarters of which are female. Under the new regulations, those women who get pregnant would be offered temporary ground jobs and the staff can go in for marriage after notifying the company.
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