BDiONU -
What you say is surely just a way for management to get out of paying a fair wage. Licensing issues aside, the pay scales are (supposedly) based on complexity and how busy a unit is.
Whether the ATCO concerned holds a 'Yellow Peril' or not does not change how hard or not they have to work.
NATS took the contract on knowing the anomalies in the licensing - or at least if they did not, the management needs another boot up the
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Working out where someonone should be on the pay scale is merely an issue of applying the much heralded banding formula - no more and no less. Other issues are just an excuse
As for operating on blue MOD licences and being restricted as to where they could work (whether or not that is the case)... what about an ATCO that is only capable of working at a band one tower only unit - surely by their ability they are limited in their ability to work elsewhere and therefore, by your reasoning, should maybe not be on a pay scale!!
A question for Gib controllers and ATSAs - do your new terms of employment state that you are a mobile grade?? If so, that is even more strength to your elbow. Good luck
