Negotiable Off Season Leave
My company offers fully unpaid off season leave but hardly anyone takes it because we only end up flying 1-2 days a week and on standby the rest (apart from off days) anyway. When i say standby I got called in twice in 4 months last year.
But does anyone’s company offer negotiable off season leave ?
Such as telling the boss you’ll take a 25%, 50% pay cut etc in exchange for 100% leave or working 1 day a week etc with the rest of the week off ?
My company could probably get through our off season with only 25% of the crew so it wouldn’t make a difference as far as the work is concerned.
However I still can’t see the company being too keen on the idea of officially paying somebody something for nothing even though they are practically paying most of us everything for nearly nothing 4 months of the year anyway.
To put it into perspective I’m salaried and 90% of my flight time last year was within a 6 month period.
Im just looking for ideas on how to approach the subject in the coming months. (If we’re not forced to take unpaid leave anyway due to COVID)