Originally Posted by
controlledrest
Under HKG Law an employer can't bond their staff. CX has always written their own rules and done things their own way - until they get caught (Paris Base anyone?). So instead of bonding new joiners they invent things like the forgivable loan - cx loan you the money for the training you don't need in Aussi (unless you are a zero to hero cadet), then 'forgive' the loan after a few years (hoping to lock you into the bitch which is seniority). Looks like a bond, smells like a bond, walks like a bond, but we will call it a loan.
I don't think you got the bond part right. HKGFS has a bond for its pilots for 10 years. And CAD's staff who received any kind of flight training are bonded according to the licence they got as well. The case of not able to bond is only when the person who got the training was not hired as a staff yet, while the reason those gov guys can be bonded is that they receive a full salary during those training.