Lost B!
I found it:
B /
In each and every contract I passed with my boss, during a long carrer, I had to sign a commitment to work for him for a duration proportionate to the cost of aircraft type training.
It could last up to 5 years, and, as I don't think my French boss was more clever than yours, this was for sure a general practice.
Was it not? And a balanced one?
The new managment fashion to have pilots to pay for training, is due to the degradation of labour market.
Now, due to unemployment, pilots (and other professionnal indeed) have to subject themselves to middle aged rules.
The fact that qualified professionnal have to work in a lower, less qualified job than the one they have been working hard to get.... this fact isn't a progress (it could be one if it was for two month work placement as an eyes opening tool on the company).
It's just another demonstration of the waste of work, money (public and private) and human substance deregulation has organised for the exclusive profit of finance tycoons.