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DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – Dubai’s Emirates Group has seen a “measurable slowdown” in enterprise as a result of coronavirus outbreak and has requested employees to take paid and unpaid go away, based on an inside e-mail seen by Reuters.
Emirates Group, a state-owned holding firm that counts Emirates airline amongst its property, had greater than 100,000 staff, together with greater than 21,000 cabin crew and 4,000 pilots, at end-March 2019, the tip of its final monetary 12 months.
“A selected problem for us proper now could be coping with the impression of the COVID-19,” the e-mail to employees mentioned, utilizing the title of the illness attributable to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
“We have seen a measurable slowdown in enterprise throughout our manufacturers, and a necessity for flexibility in the best way we work.”
The e-mail requested employees who’ve “accrued a big stability of annual go away” to contemplate taking paid go away. It additionally mentioned the corporate was providing unpaid go away…