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Philippines AirAsia, an affiliate of Malaysia’s AirAsia, is in the process of implementing an all-inclusive hiring policy that will “offer equal employment opportunities to everyone irrespective of their gender identity and sexual orientation.”
This includes cabin crew positions, though right now the only vacancies are in the sales, marketing, engineering and ground operations departments.
Philippines AirAsia isn’t the first to do this in Asia — now-defunct PC Air of Thailand did that in 2012.
The airline company, which has more than 1,000 employees to date (40 per cent of them women), also accepts qualified family members of employees as long there’s no conflict of interest.
Transgenders refers to individuals whose self-identity does not conform to their assigned sex at birth.
It can be someone who born a woman and identifies as a man (transman), or someone born a man who identifies as a woman (transwoman).
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