If I was a BA employee who had a frozen ATPL gained via MODULAR training then I would mount a legal challenge to their eligibility requirements.
They couldn't possible make them stand up in an employment tribunal. In fact it would never get there as their Brief would tell them to capitulate and avoid a fine.
In which case if they had automatically rejected you from applying for pilot training they would have to reverse that and allow you to go at least a fair stretch down the selection route.
Imagine an internal job advertisment that stated a Finance Degree qualification was required but that a distance learning or Open University gained degree was not acceptable... Or that applicants had to be MicroSoft Certified Engineers - but must have attended a full time course rather than evening classes....
For BA to use a defence along the lines of 'Integrated graduates offer less training risk' they would HAVE to have the data to back that up. Which they don't as they have never taken any JAA Modular graduates through pilot training out onto the line.
They'd have to back down sharpish and you might even get some compensation from them for rejecting you in the first place on an unfair clause. Indeed if you were say a female with children you might well be able to argue that your family commitments precluded you from full time study on the Integrated route. Thereby showing that BA's policy was indirectly discriminatory. Under the current legal regime this might well be arguable for Men with parenting commitments.
Its a can of HR worms and the sooner someone spanks the airlines backside in a tribunal the better. Only then will they stop trying to discriminate between equally qualified identically trained applicants.
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