helimutt
Not sure how much time a major world player in the helicopter world needs to get organised but Bristow knew in March they had the BP contract so thats 5 months. By the time the Conoco contract becomes active in November that will be similar. I would suggest they have had more than enough time to sort out manning issues particularly as they had a captive workforce to draw on with no requirement to advertise.
I understand that as yet there is still uncertainty as to which pilots are transferring at the end of next week.
Even worse is that a number of the engineers were called for interview at Bristow yesterday on what was clearly the "chop list". This was the second time that Bristow has called the CHC engineers in with effectively no notice.
Some were selected for the chop on the basis that they had restricted licenses. It became apparent that Bristow HR were totally unaware that the restrictions in question were irrelevent. The redundancy notices could then not be issued and the guys were told they would have to return for further interview next week.
The knock on effect is that most of the engineers (except avionics?) now have to attend a further competitive interview next week. That will be less than a week to go and most of the guys will still not know if they have a job or not.
To look on the bright side at least Bristow have managed to give them some notice!!!!
Just in case anyone thinks this is more Bristow bashing the general opinion is that CHC HR are just as bad.
Neither operator is going to come out of this looking anything other than incompetent. It is an HR disaster that was avoidable.