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PDI - Aside from the issue with its pilots, PAL is also dealing with disputes with its flight attendants and ground employees.

Flight attendants have threatened work stoppages in protest of PAL’s policy of forcing the cabin crew to retire at the age of 40, when all other PAL workers are allowed to work until the age of 60.

Ground employees are also protesting PAL’s plan to outsource 2,600 jobs initially also as part of cost-cutting efforts.

“What I see here is we have set the tone of the way other labor issues can be settled so we expect [PAL] to follow the mold of dialogue and to be more open-minded,” Velasco said.