Originally Posted by
Romasik
This is all BS. There is a legal option to leave the company. Go ahead. Go legal. Take another job. It so easy these days and coming years... Plenty opportunities around
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They still give you a chance. Obviously Saudia can't afford to pay salaries when airplanes are not moving and oil price is next to nothing. They are even terminating their own pilots older than 58 years, and not taking back their retirees as promised. It's their country. What did you expect?
It is not the pilots to go legal because so far is the company that is not doing it and will also be liable criminally by the one that perpetrated and actuated the illegal behaviour.
Pilots have a contract so it is not up to them to leave the company nor to ask for unpaid leave.
Surely if they decide to brake the contract they will have to pay ALL their dues and it is their responsibility to repatriate the crews as per contract. (They will have to put up flights for that purpuse because othervise foreign embassies will get involved and they will lose even more credibilty in the eyes of the world against what that they are trying to build to attract foreigners)
Nobody expected this from a company or a country like Saudi Arabia but I believe that they will find a more sensible and viable solution than this one.
Qatar airways is retaining its crew with a reduction in salary like Emirates and local airlines in Saudi.
Thinking that an employee can remain in Saudi without salary and food away from their family is only something that one would expect in third world countries like Africa.
i hope they will not put up with this. And surely the future behavior will set an example for the future if they will seek foreigners to work for them again.
They promised the moon to everybody before employment but they did not keep any of those promises.
First officers were promised command courses that never materialised, they moved people in different bases without paying any relocation allowance as per contract. The employed crews waited more than nine months to have a dignified accomodation as per contract......
I am confident that this is the opportunity to prove the rest of the world wrong about Saudi I hope for them and for the crews that they will jump on this opportunity.
Surely it would be very different for all the employee, if they are repatriated and agree on a certain time of lower wage during this crisis I am sure that there would be a totaly different commotion about this issue and everybody would accept it.