Originally Posted by
Johhny Utah
LH EA 15.10.2 (b).
All there in black and white.
Thanks Johnny ,
from the EA
b) The Company may make pilots compulsorily redundant, which WILL occur in reverse order of seniority – that is, on a last on first off basis except that the Company MAY ‘pass over’ a pilot who is on LWOP and that period of leave commenced prior to the issuing of the notice of compulsory redundancy and was approved for a period of more than 12 months. Where a pilot is on LWOP that was not approved prior to the issuing of notices of redundancy and that period of LWOP was approved for a period of less than 12 months then:
So as a result of Qantas Managements application of the wording of “MAY” pass over a Pilot on LWOP this then makes any chance of a pilot potentially affected , zero chance of making an educated guess as to “ where one might stand in the scheme of things “ ,which makes trying to work out a plan of action nigh on impossible !
As a result , why wouldn’t a pilot who is affected by this application of “ MAY “ being interpreted as “WILL “ launch a grievence because they have been materially disadvantaged by a poorly worded clause ?
What should be attempted by Management is a multi stage expressions of interest for each form of number reductions starting with VR progressing to expressions of interest for LWOP ,etc in order to allow for the least amount of uncertainty resulting in the least number of materially disadvantage pilots due to the honest presentation of data !
Otherwise this is just another cynical Managerial troll !