Originally Posted by
desert witch
Can someone elighten me as to why Unpaid leave is such a implausible option at EK? I would happily go for a year, Zero pay, and if there is enough of us, save a number of redundancies.
I know everyone is looking after themselves these days, but if there was any way to show (Bryan?) that we are a good number, might be possible to pass it on to whoever can actually push it through?
Because it’s an expat airline. Please enlighten me of any other predominantly expat airlines that offer unpaid leave?
Also worth remembering that ‘unpaid leave’ still had various allowances paid by the company. So in reality EK are not getting to hold on to staff for free.
They just don’t need the same number of staff. When they do I’m sure they’ll rehire and have plenty of applicants to choose from.