Originally Posted by
SloppyJoe
No I don't think they are. It is a renewable agreement, they were going to change it but backed down due to the threat of trainers resigning. ARAPA is now, this very minute, amenable by CX, this KA offer is no different. If they went back to the old ways, where rent can be paid to your company, they may be onto something as the tax saving makes up for the shortfall, win win however is not in their interest for some reason unfortunately.
ARAPA is an agreement by its very definition.
However, the contract to provide adequate housing is also by its definition, contractual.
A contract that has similar wording with CX, KA, Swire Hong Kong, Swire Properties, Swire bottling, Swire Shipping etc (not to mention all the CX based crew who will also need their contracts altered when they return to HK). It would be extremely difficult for management to argue why there should be an outlier. That’s not to say that a manager on Swire HK housing allowance isn’t naive enough to try to argue why his housing is more contractual than someone else’s.
They like to employ suicidal middle managers. It’s like a cult.