Originally Posted by
4 driver
The easiest way to deal with these pesky labour laws abroad, would be to close the bases. Once all pilots are HK based, CX can do what they want; because the courts will support them in HKG.
Don't think that'd work at this point. You couldn't close a base to deliberately avoid the contractural provisions of layoff/recall in an existing contract (it'd have the same effect as violating them in the first place), and I'm sure there's a paper trail if that would have been the intent. So better simply to solve the problem by following an agreed contract rather than try something dodgy and underhanded.