DK,
You are right, ERP is a good system and I am not complaining. However, like most of the mechanisms in place it seems to be a bit of smoke and mirrors. It is supposed to protect half your salary but I have never been very sure how it operates, I don't know if anyone does. Looking on the brightest side, the exchange rate has effected my salary by about -£1000 yet the ERP delivers £270. That looks like about a quarter but there you go. (In dirham terms it works out at 7% or so of my salary) Lets hope the dollar strengthens before I have to take the massive gratuity.
FBS
You do them a disservice; they are much smarter than that. They have already clawed it back. The change to credit rules increased the O/T target by over 8%. The basic salary has gone up but every time I take leave or do a ground duty I lose more than the new rise in lost overtime. At least we don't have to hear TCK announce 'well done chaps, you have got a 19% pay rise including your increment, profit share and scale change!' Finally I see why AAR said it was a cost neutral measure!
Cerberus