Surely the maximum number of hours flown in a month is not for Emirates to decide but the local CAA.
Could someone confirm that this instruction has come from local CAA in a legal rule change; if not you could be breaking the law.
It appears that in an act of desperation, the management here has interpreted the regulation that deals with the logging of time as an augmenting crewmember to also apply towards the FTL's (ie. time spent in the bunk cannot count towards total time for the purposes of attaining a license). Never mind that when they tried this before, the GCAA intervened. It is well known that we are facing a severe crewing shortage this summer and this appears to be their solution. What is not known is whether the GCAA is going along with this or not.
They have tried to tell us that they are being "forced" to do this by the GCAA and that they "really don't want to". Of course, when asked why they don't simply apply a more conservative approach and state that they will only roster crews to the 100 hours in 28 days, (including augmenting operations) they are silent.