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Dragonair has sacked a number of long-serving flight attendants – including new mothers – the sacked workers’ union says.迷你倉尖沙咀At least eight flight attendants complained to the Dragonair Flight Attendants Association in the last three months that they had been unexpectedly let go – in some cases after completing a period of unpaid time off after maternity leave.The company said a “small number” of staff had been sacked due to an “abnormal level of absence” from work”.But the sackings have prompted concerns that the airline is getting rid of experienced staff in order to replace them with cheaper new recruits.They received just one month’s salary in compensation. One of the attendants was just a year from retirement and would have been entitled to benefits including lifelong discounted tickets. The woman had been offered the chance to sit an exam with a view to promotion not long ago, said Winnie Poon of the flight attendants’ association.In at least three other cases the attendants were new mothers who had been “encouraged” to take unpaid leave after their maternity leave, Poon said.“Tmini storagee company is apparently getting rid of the more costly staff,” said Poon, who described the company’s use of its right to let the staff go with only a month’s pay as “not ethical”.But Dragonair said that a “small number of cabin crew” had been unable to meet the company’s requirement and had “maintained an abnormal level of absence for a prolonged period of time”.“This has caused significant impact to our crew roster stability and the rest of the crew community. Dragonair can confirm that no crew or staff has been terminated while on maternity leave” the company said.The airline – a subsidiary of Cathay Pacific – had adopted a “positive and caring” absence-management system, it said, that offered support to enable “cabin crew with medical conditions to return to their full flying duties as soon as practicable”.Poon said a meeting between the association and the airline’s management had been scheduled for next month.Cathay said this week that it had been in talks with unions over a pay rise, in the hope it could avert the threat of industrial action during the busy Christmas period.迷你倉