Vida-Liebhart is calling for fair standards for flying personnel instead of allowing those who have been laid off to work again under worse conditions. As was made public yesterday, for the first time since the pandemic, 250 flight attendant positions at AUA's sister company Eurowings in Germany have been advertised to external parties. "Lufthansa is using the corona pandemic to reduce employee rights," criticizes Daniel Liebhart, head of the aviation department at the Vida union, against this background. The Lufthansa Group has announced massive job cuts across Europe, as well as in Austria, which are to be implemented despite rising air traffic figures, Liebhart explains his criticism. "On the other hand, during the pandemic, the group founded the company Eurowings Discover in Germany, which flies across Europe without a collective agreement or co-determination rights for the workforce. The Lufthansa Group now wants to recruit new staff who were laid off during the pandemic for this company so that they can go back to work in their usual jobs under worse conditions. The company is thus abandoning its social responsibility and following in the footsteps of other notorious airlines that deliberately circumvent employee rights," criticizes Liebhart. Instead of throwing money into new dumping companies in order to circumvent existing employee rights, the union is calling on the Lufthansa Group to actively work to preserve existing jobs. The internal Lufthansa dumping competition, which has now been artificially created by this large number of group companies, is a business in which everyone will lose, and is therefore the completely wrong answer to the still lacking fair rules of the game in the industry. The Lufthansa Group Executive Board should work with the unions to demand rules for fair competition from politicians. The governments are also called upon to act.