Easy Jet : Safety Culture : Using sickness absence to select for redundancy
If any of us have a temperature, a persistent cough, or a loss of sense of taste or smell we have a public duty to self isolate. We each have a duty to do all that we can to stop the spread of this virus. Despite this and against the back ground of the biggest public health emergency the human race has faced in at least 100 years the BBC are reporting that Easy Jet think that it is sufficiently acceptable to choose which pilots are to be made redundant and loose their jobs at least partly on the basis of sickness absence. To put coercive pressure on pilots to report for duty when unwell even in more normal times is unacceptable but against the background of a global pandemic is revolting.
If this policy continues then clearly an unsafe airline culture exists which must strike at the heart of the AOC. The Rice family will not be making an Easy Jet booking while the crew are subjected to this appalling pressure.