Just had a friend call me to say that he had been made redundant because the company changed its pilot requirement criteria. In essence, he had been flying for this company as an FO on a twin turbine aircraft flying miners about for 12 months. He has ATPL and over 2000 hrs TT, but apparently, because he had not 500hrs command twin time, which was the new company requirement, he lost his job. The company told him that as a pilot he was excellent with good team skills etc, but didn't have the right NEW criteria.
If this is the case and it seems to be the norm these days, how does one get up to these new standards........ surely it is by way of being FO's etc. Most jobs these days in WA are linked to the mining sector and government and not too many opportunities are outside these sectors.
Can a company who has employed someone and passed all their initial requirements etc, then turn around 12 months later and change the rules, thereby making you redundant????
Seems very strange and unfair in the very least. Is this caused by the accident in South Africa????