Your seniority is not so much based on what your staff number is, but the date you officially join the company, i.e. your first day of ground school, and it is this date that guarantees your seniority.
Does your “guarantee” of seniority appear in your agency employment contract ?
Notwithstanding the multiple AOC’s and associated multiple regulatory safety oversight, the convoluted, can of worms, direct employment circumvention associated with Norwegian’s atypical labor scheme, with its system-wide temporary rental of pilots from service provider agencies, is exampled in a European Commission, Norwegian/OSM merger report – Link:
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/merg...7949_400_3.pdf
There are three contracts associated with crew members temporarily rented to a Norwegian Group airline:
1. Pilot employment contract with the agency.
2. Contract between the service providers and Norwegian to rent agency employed pilots.
3. Individual service agreements between the agency and Norwegian for each pilot rented.
Ask the agency to fully explain item 3 before embarking on your Norwegian adventure. Item 3 permits Norwegian to cancel the service agreement without notice, reason or recourse (previously clause 10.b in a contract on file with the DOT). Any notice period is with the agency, not Norwegian.
Cue the inventive Norwegian lynch mob….