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In BA - Part Time seems to mean ......
GS-Alpha wrote -
" .... you can get back from a trip on the last day of your available days, and the industrial or EASA required days off are within your unpaid part time days off."
" ... part time pilots are working harder than their adjusted full time equivalents."
"Global constraints is a particularly brutal part of JSS ...."
Not exactly 'privy' but ..... Our local's resident BA skipper is on part time and suffers from the above mentioned cheap-skate tricks, which seem to have been sneaked through onto their part time contracts.
After each longhaul trip he gets two nights off, that he calls MTBR or 'recovery days.' But when it comes to his part-time days off, he loses his MTBR because they make him start his seven unpaid part-time days off the day after he lands back at London.
So he isn't paid for two days of righteous work (his MTBR) which should be on Company Time and Money, that follows his trip on CTM, because those two days are rostered as his unpaid part-time days off instead. He doesn't think he loses any money but he becomes available for two more days work each month than his (adjusted) full time mates.
He says
'JSS global constraints' then shuffles his initial roster to cover any left-over work and to ensure his two days extra availability is not squandered. He says his part-time roster usually looks and feels like he's still working full time.
What really peeves him off is that his Virgin mates who are part-time have so far managed to fend off this cheating. They get all their entitled days off in full - MTBR and Part Time. You'd think Balpa-BA and Balpa-Virgin would get their part-time heads together. Let's hope their managements don't do the same.
He calls it
Part Time (Chipped) Beef - aka - 'S*** on a (BA) Shingle.' That's not a reference to his crew meal BTW; it's apparently a popular culinary delicacy from his USAF exchange days.
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