All Nippon Airways Co.'s parent ANA Holdings Inc. has listed at least five companies, including KDDI Corp. and Pasona Group Inc., to which it wants to dispatch up to around 40 employees to temporarily cut costs, according to sources, amid financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The holding company announced two of the companies on the list on Tuesday: Seijo Ishii Co., which operates Seijo Ishii supermarkets mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and Nojima Corp., which operates consumer electronics chain stores.
According to internal documents obtained by The Yomiuri Shimbun, the list also includes major temp agency Pasona and major telecommunication company KDDI, which runs the au brand.
ANA Holdings is calling for up to 28 employees to temporarily transfer to KDDI, up to five employees to Nojima and up to four to Pasona. In addition, the holding company is asking an undisclosed number of employees to work at a company in Tottori Prefecture, whose name has not been revealed.
As for what kind of jobs the dispatched employees will be assigned to do, ANA Holdings suggested several possibilities, including clerical work, such as data entry and preparing material, and sales, as well as teaching English to employees of the companies they have been sent to.
The dispatch period is expected to be roughly from six months to two years. Apparently, there will be no permanent transfers.
The holding company still has to pay salaries to all the employees transferred to the other companies but can receive some compensation from those companies for the dispatched staff.
ANA Holdings announced Tuesday it would post a net loss of 510 billion yen for the business year ending March 2021, the worst ever for the company.
The dispatch plan is part of the structural reform the holding company is embarking on to improve its situation. The company is making relevant arrangements with several companies and planning to expand the number of employees dispatched to 100 by December and more than 400 by next spring.
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