An article in the April 08' Australian Aviation magazine on page 91, is a great summary of a trend in aviation employment at the moment.
It appears that some GA companies are still trying to aviod paying reasonable $, trying to force pilots to stay by, in the case of one company, charging a prospective employee $5000 if they leave within a year! Fair dinkum - what's the world coming to?
The possible way to put a stop on the type of recruitment method as depicted in this article, is for the applicant to walk away post haste. When the employer/s loose their bargaining power, maybe then pilots may gain the upper hand .
It appears from the previous post that even the government is ackowledging the current pilot crisis, so why can't the airlines?
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