<<In the coming months, Vueling facing an expansion plan with the purchase of six aircraft, which will require the hiring of 40 to 70 pilots, according to estimates of SEPLA>>
Sepla section Vueling complaint that the conditions of hiring new pilots for the company are abusive, despite having ratified the first agreement of the airline, just four months ago. "From the Sepla believe that the recruitment level 6 co-pilot cadets is unfair, especially in current conditions, when the company is making money", argues the representative of sepla Xavier Franco.The level that regulates the hiring of new pilots set a base salary of 850 euros (that adding the 80 hours per month on average is at about 2,000 euros). A salary in the event of withdrawal is less than mileurista.
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In the coming months, Vueling facing an expansion plan with the purchase of six aircraft, which will require the hiring of 40 to 70 pilots, according to estimates of SEPLA. The company currently has 370 pilots, having reduced its workforce by about 40 in the process of restructuring following the merger of Vueling and Clickair. "Some of these will again be hired, but with much worse conditions than they were before, even with more experience," he lamented from Sepla.
"We are in a very competitive market phase, in which we are faced with tight cost airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair, and we need a framework that gives us stability and allow to continue growing," said company sources who do not understand how pilots trying to renegotiate an agreement that has not even begun to implement, since in the past four months "has not hired any pilots." "They signed the agreement," repeated. The company headed by Josep Piqué had an agreement for its pilots that, until last July, had almost no union representation. Today, some 300 of the 370 pilots belong to Sepla. Sources close to the top of the company say that the creation of this level 6 is necessary to carry out the salaries of the commanders who soon will enter the level 1, the top flight.
"If we sign the agreement, which greatly improves our conditions, but the level 6 degrades the profession and only signed for from the company assured us that it would be for all new hires, but now we see what their true intentions," argues Franco . "We do not complain about the salary, but that all new hires will be made this way, even for pilots with years of experience, and are precarious conditions," they say. The condition of the cadet pilots were extended for two years, a term for the representatives of SEPLA is too high in most cases and that the company claims that two years of training.
To enter this level, pilots must complete a study that cost about 18,000 euros and allows them access to job vacancies but assures them a place. Sepla pilots want the company to remove the controversial level 6. "We believe it is a very narrow path, we believe it would be reasonable to set the conditions for entry into a level 4, which represents between 25% and 30% increase on base salary Level 6," says Franco .
His goal is to sit down and negotiate with the company, but if Vueling no access to modify the article, it raises even challenging mobilisations or reach agreement