Failure to launch: Qatar Airways discriminates against female employees (albawaba.com)
March 10, 2014
After months of scathing reports from labor rights officials, Qatar Airways on Friday said controversy over its female cabin crew policy was “not true.”
The airline was blastedlast September for forcing its female workers to seek permission from the company when they decide to get married.
In a reportreleased then by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the airline was found to also mandate that women tell a supervisor if they become pregnant.
Back then, Al Arabiya News contacted Qatar Airways but the airline’s Senior Corporate Communications Manager Madonna Walsh declined to comment further.
Now, Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker has reacted furiously to questions about the report and said people were attacking Qatar because it had won the right to host the 2022 soccer World Cup.
“All this was a big sensational (effort) to target my country because of 2022, saying people have no human rights. It is not true,” he told reporters at the ITB travel fair in Berlin, in statements carried by Reuters news agency.
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Tags: Human and Trade Union Rights, TRADE UNION RIGHTS, women's rights