Sorry, I made a mistake...I asked the source of knowledge and it wasn't a BA guy who took the company to court, but a British Midland bloke(we think!!!!!). End result was the same-European court ruling in engineers favour.
Spannersatcx- I don't think there is any documentary stuff in english law about bonding being illegal. We tried to get more info on this from AEEU ,but as yet have received no reply. Presumably the situation arose from European rights court who determined in this case that the company was acting illegally by bonding. As we all know ,European law is much more in favour of workers rights than English law. I understand that this case happened at the time the Social Chapter was in all the headlines-maybe something to do with it!!
[This message has been edited by SchmiteGoBust (edited 22 December 2000).]