*ISLAMABAD – PIA has set a goal for its cabin crew with the start of thenew year and the goal is to lose weight or else maybe fired.*
PIA is fat shaming its employees. It wants overweight cabin crew (though ithasn’t specified what it considers overweight) to lose weight by February 1or they will be grounded.
The airline even issued a circular on this ultimatum.
In the circular, it has given a schedule for its cabin crew to reduce theirweight. Apparently this isn’t the first time the airline has told itsemployees to lose weight. It mentioned that it had also told the crew tolose weight on May 10, 2016.
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The airline is “reducing the waiver of 30 pounds excess weight to zeropounds in the coming months” according to the circular. With a schedule oflosing five pounds a month, the airline wants its employees to lose 30pounds by July.
By first February the waiver is being reduced to 25 pounds, meaning thecrew will have to lose five pounds if they were considered overweightbefore. The deadlines continue every month with a five pound decrease untilJuly 1, where PIA says its cabin crew should be zero pounds overweight.
