EFP
Enter EFP
Notwithstanding the above, if you would still like to help the Company out, I highly recommend that you try not to go sick and keep your EFP every month as close to 84- 86 hours per month. This way you will MINIMISE your pay for the year.
If you want to give yourself a pay rise this year, VOLATILITY is your friend. Given likely staff numbers and average EFP in the coming year, CC will have no choice but to roster large amounts of overtime.
How do you do it?
If you’re unwell, perhaps with a head cold or just plain old fatigued, and are not fit for duty you should not be going to work. Ideally it is optimal if by some small coincidence this happens strategically so that on 2 or possibly 3 months a year, your credit hours for the month are down somewhere in the vicinity of 60- 65 credit hours.
On the negative side, you will lose some HDP in the month of sickness, however you only need to get somewhere in the order of 2 ‘extra’ hours of EFP to make up for this, then everything else really is extra.
While it doesn’t guarantee it, chances are that due to crew numbers it hugely increases the likelihood of a few big EFP months in following rosters. This will work especially well if there is a small increase in the number of sick days from a substantial number of crew.
Of course, while there is no formal industrial action, this may make life a little hard for CC. It is worth considering that the same people that own CX own Dragonair. Our managers are obviously quite happy to treat employees so badly that large numbers leave, and quickly – a la KA. If they want to park aircraft and cancel numerous sectors then that’s their choice. Continue down the present industrial road and this is what lies at the end.
Look at your block hours. If you’re too close to 900 on the rolling 12 monthly total, there’s no way to make em pay!!!
If your Credit hours are sufficiently volatile then you give yourself a much greater likelihood of getting to the 2.5 multiplier. As wacko Tom says ‘Show me the money!’
If you have any doubt that this doesn’t work, do the numbers yourself. It is impossible for all of us to achieve an average 84 credit hours plus over the course of a whole year without large numbers of us at or near the CAD max. The implication of this is that if you have some low credit hour months, they will have to make up for it in other months with significant EFP.
Enjoy