Originally Posted by
Bootstrap1
Are they recruiting engineers? Rumours are popping up that Joyce is going to sell off engineering and outsource all of their work. Because that would be great news to the flying public, not too mention on time performance.
Outsourcing positions that require relatively low levels of training, like baggage handling and catering, was done on the premise that it would be fairly simple for a contractor to quickly train up replacements for previous staff. Also seeing this with cabin crew, but on a more gradual long term scale, with premium legacy conditions becoming casualised temporary positions, and CC can be trained in several weeks with no formal qualifications so not that difficult.
Engineers (and pilots) different altogether. I’m not too sure about the exact requirements for AME and then LAME but when you need things like tertiary education, CASA licensing, apprenticeships, years of experience before upgrading etc you can’t exactly expect an outsourcing provider to come up with a large number of qualified staff in a short time frame, one that would be needed if you were suddenly going to outsource engineering work.
So I’d say the chance of having engineering jobs outsourced would be low, but probably subject to downward pressure on conditions in other areas like EBA negotiations.