The following is from today's
Daily Telegraph - is this 'old news'? or inaccurate?
I'm surprised not to have seen any comment about it on the CC Thread.
Workers who take part in industrial action lose their pay while they are striking. But many BA cabin crew have discovered that during last week's strike, if they did not turn up for one day's work, they lost up to two week's wages.
This is because BA decided to strip them of pay for the full duration of a return trip, including rest days in between and the mandatory rest days at the end.
Crew who fly to Australia, for instance, are rostered to work for 14 days – the amount of time BA allows for the crew to fly to and from Sydney, rest in between, as well as have four days' rest at the end. Crew due to fly to the States or Asia, who went on strike, lost six days pay.