In a way to save outlays, the British Airways CEO is asking all the staff to work for free for 4 weeks; in fact he’ll be taking the lead and bite the bullet too. Of course the CEO can well afford 4 weeks of such voluntary work, but those who rely on a salary to pay off mortgages, rents and day-to-day expenses won’t be too keen on this idea, and they are planning on a series of strikes to get their points across. I’m sure the CEO would have been smart enough to come up with more workable alternatives. Four weeks of no pay out of 52 weeks of the year works out to be the same as a 7.69% pay cut over a year. Surely a steadier, albeit reduced, stream of income is easier to swallow than a period without any subsistence! Unfortunately the airlines are doing it tough in this economic climate, and if they cannot entice the travelling public to loosen their purse strings, they will have little other choice than digging into the employees’ hip pockets. 英航行政總裁為節省開支，竟想出奇招，呼籲全體員工無薪工作四週，他還會身體力行，自己帶頭響