Originally Posted by
BizJetJock
Interesting point of view - having more time off each year than someone working 5 days a week with 6 weeks holiday is "disgusting treatment?? And how do you figure out that it has to come out of the 17 by law? Every country I know of (which does not include Aus, so I can't comment on there) merely has a legal miminum number off days off per year - and i think in the US it is only 14 in the whole year. If your contract states that those have to be taken at particular times that is normal. Ask any factory worker!
For starters, we are
not factory workers, please compare aviation companies with other aviation companies. Following your logic you should be happy to also only earn the same money as a train or bus driver, since we do the same stuff as them.
And you don't ask your highly valued employees to perform their training and travelling on their OFF-days, this is disgusting, too. Vacation means vacation: vacation days replace working days. In my outfit luckily it's like this: 18 vacation days = one calendar month OFF, period. Don't quote me on it, but as far as I am aware it is even part of work legislation in our contract state.
It's always as much as you allow an employer to go. Get organized, found a trade union, fight for your conditions and don't accept everything what the "Tsar" is dictating.