What an apt handle 'plastique' is for someone with no backbone....
The pilots illegally sacked by CX were given no written warning of dismissal (as accepted by the CX side in court) were picked at random (with a few that the company had wanted to get rid of for ages, quite reasonably in a couple of cases), included an ex Fleet Manager who had been begged to stay on in management, the Captain who had spent thousands of hours of his own time running the 'Sunnyside Club', a charity supported by CX pilots and , in their usual colonial way, exploited annually by CX in their advertising, guys who had just joined the company and those nearly at the end of their service...........all completely without the benefit of any reason as to thier sacking as demanded by the employment laws of the countries that CX employed them in.
Invertebrate apologists such as shortly etc. will tell you different, but those are the facts as seen.
As an aside, there are numerous companies, not only in HKG, that will rue the day that CX started this, for to lose and have to accept that the laws of the country that you are employed in govern your employment contract will be disastrous for many..........
There is also the little problem of the empoyers contribution to National Insurance in UK, which many companies allegedly do not pay as they maintain they are not UK based. Do not expect Gordon Brown to miss this opportunity to recoup some of the costs of the Gulf war.............
