Originally Posted by
Derfred
Morno,
Night credits are not about increasing pay, they do not.
Night credits reduce the roster hours flown, thus providing health benefits using the accepted science that back-of-the-clock flying has negative health impacts.
This is exactly what you are saying “should happen”!
Qantas has and still is attempting to remove night credits purely on the grounds of “increased productivity”.
Cheers
Understand Derfred, but surely there's more to it than just reducing the flying. What about patterns based upon time zone changes, diet, fitness, brain stimulation, breakdown of task sharing (ie. multiple crews during a duty) over a flight. There's got to be more to the science than simply saying "you did 5hrs night, so that means we work you for 5 hours less this month".
If I were a QF long haul pilot, I would be pushing for more research to be done over an extended period of time, so that you have scientific data to fight your future battles with. It's like my young son saying that he won't do something I ask and answering with "just 'cause". You have some data that says shift work is bad for your health, but you have no data that delves into the world of long haul flying over an extended period of time. Get it, and you might have something to fight with.