According to last night's email, a class 'A' Q400 FO will earn $14000 less PA than a 'normal' FO. By year 4 the gap will be nearly $16000.
You've sold out the FO ranks and future pilots.
Fleet freeze of 18 months from check to line or 24 months from employment/award, whichever occurs first. This applies to new hires only.
Anyone applying to QantasLink should be very concerned about this. Do not accept a base you cannot see yourself living in for 24 months. This clause only benefits the company, and seems to forgot there's an Adelaide base. Adelaide is a great place to live but new hirers that want Brisbane should not apply for that base if this EBA gets up. You will be stuck on the Q300 and therefore can't move to the Q400 which is a Brisbane base. You've given the company a massive training cost saving with this clause.
Minimum guaranteed 12 hours between shifts at home base. Whilst this is in current FRMS it was never in our EA. This is now locked in. If the company changes this in their FRMS we will be protected.
Committee pretending this is a win they achieved is laughable. CASA would never allow this FRMS time off period to be walked back.
The current DHA is only payable for duty hours whereas the new DHAA is payable on all hours from sign-on at home base to sign off at home base. This means that DHAA is payable for all duty time and time away from home. In that regard DHAA is a significant lifestyle protection/compensation for those who are taken away from their home and family for work. The company needs to start to honour the EA rostering agreement letter. There is now a significant cost associated with continuing to roster pilots in a non-regional lifestyle pattern. We would hope that over time it helps drive less wasted time at hotels away from home base, less multi day trips and better regional pilot lifestyle. We also hope it will eventually make the rostering of overnights a bit more equitable across the different bases.
First, if the company isn't honoring the current agreement, then what the actual F has the committee been doing the last few years?
And how does this make rostering of overnights more equitable across different bases? The nature of Cairns flying means you will get the most overnights and make more money. Adelaide get stuff all overnights, which are usually min rest or close. So certain bases are clearly going to make more money.
Come clean and explain what the original DHA offer was. Word on the street is AIPA were offered a 50% increase, which meant more money overall in everyone's pockets.