so far as all this TUPE/share sale etc.stuff is concerned someone who knows about these things explained it to me very simply.
Flybe is buying (ha ha! should have said been paid to take) all the share capital of BAcon.
So immediately after the transfer our legal employer remains exactly the same and all the contracts and agreements we have in place with BAcon have to be honoured.....pay, terms and conditions etc. Non contractual things like staff travel etc are a different matter.
at some stage in the (near I suspect) future Flybe will want to integrate the business totally into their operation and give us new contracts with new terms and conditions including a new seniority order where both groups are fully integrated. Clearly the terms of those new contracts will be something keenly negotiated by our Balpa reps, but I understnd that tupe WILL APPLY when this integration process takes place as it is the business and undertaking of BAcon which is THEN being transferred to Flybe.
Therefore Flybe cannot just tear up our Bacon contracts and expect us to sign up to lesser terms without facing the full wrath of employment tribunals and the courts.
As a group standing together within Balpa BAcon pilots actualy are in a position to significantly influence the terms that are offered as the law does give us significant protection.
I am sure that Flybe big shots will be reading this. At the moment we are mostly prepared to be open minded but Id say that you have a very short time within which to make a good first impression, because from what I hear just about everyone is putting out CVs elsewhere.
We have been lied to so much and bull!!!!ted to so much that every one of us can spot dishonesty and bull from a mile. Whatever you do, give it to us straight or you'll get the instant and terminal disrespect
that is enjoyed by our David Evans and his fellow jokers.above all give us your main man to talk to, not (intending no insult) one of his sidekicks.
FACT
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