Its all about....
Bodum, and PBR, thanks for taking the time to post your knowledge of casual conditions.
Several hundred 'exceptional' (as Lesley G.Rant would say) people who applied for, and were successfully assessed as, permanent QF f/a's, are waiting for positions they are not going to be offered. Yet, some are being contacted for positions as casuals, and some are not. Those who turn down the offer for casual, we are told, may be scrapped altogether.
It never ceases to amaze me, that anyone who criticises poor performance in airline HR finds their application taken no further, or there is a litany of excuses...SARS? Not. Iraq? Not. Bin Laden? Not. 9/11? Not.
Those who took redundancy in the Company's voluntary redundancy drive, now find that their positions were not overstaffing the Company, as they had been led to believe. QF is eagerly running back to back training for Adecco (de facto permanent) and MAM casuals.
Qantas HR can take a slap in the face. It deserves it. The Airline advertised for 'permanent, fixed term and casual flight attendants' in the ad I answered. It has not delivered.
Guess the missing link here is that in the hurry to reach Dicko's casualisation target, QF has not put in place any process from which merit based selection for permanent crew will be assessed in future, now that the career path does not include external applicants.
Many who applied for permanent, or fixed term, and who now accept offers as casuals, will do so on the basis of a phone conversation with a distant voice at QCC4. They will inevitably decide to accept the job assuming that hard work may lead to a permanent role.
Not.
Where is a new HR process formalising this new career pathway - external to casual, casual to permanent?
If it does not exist, the Company should just say so instead of playing on people's optimism.
QF recruitment and manpower planning is becoming as shonky as the low cost carriers QF crows foul about - and will deliver the same results. Sadly, no matter how dressed up it will be in Morrissey, pay peanuts - get monkies.