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"When considering work to rule...
http://www.actu.asn.au/work_rights/n...976_17416.html
These folk lost a weeks pay because they refused to work OT, during a "protected period" of industrial action... The ETU is taking it to the federal court, the outcome has far reaching consequences for all of us."
These employees probably didn't have a statutory licence.
The PIC is the ultimate authority in the flight deck and answers to the regulator for decisions made.
Is a court (industrial context) really going to decide after the event that a diversion was for other than "operational reasons" and additional fuel should have been ordered?
Are these same courts going to become arbititors of when an MEL should be carried, whether an ILS or instrument time should be logged? Is the court to decide the pilots fatigue levels and hence whether an TOD should have been extended?
On the other hand, if the Federal Goverment wants to complete control for the operational decisions for "industrial reasons", they are quite welcome to legislate for operational control. Do they really want that responsibilty? I don't think so.