TOULOUSE/BERLIN—Europe’s Airbus left the door open, on July 1, to scaling back its planned 15,000 job cuts in exchange for government-funded labour schemes and research, as its coronavirus restructuring stoked political and union alarm.
Europe’s largest aerospace group plans to cut 11 percent of its global workforce, after a 40 percent slump in its 55 billion euro ($61.8 billion) jet business, sparking anxiety about compulsory redundancies in France, Germany, Spain, and Britain.
