I have similar concerns over the antics of my own company aswell. They have declared that all systems are GO as from the 4th Sept. Today in fact. They have also said that this is perfectly legal and have threatend disciplinary action for those who don't comply.
On my last visit to the crew room a few days ago I was phoned by crewing to be asked why I had not acknowledged my latest roster change and why had the rest of my crew not "swiped in "yet ? This was actually 5 mins before our legal checkin time.
There are only 2 terminals in our crew room with 7 crews all arriving for early morning duties at the same time. The word CHAOS is the understatement of the century; especially as either one or both terminals usually pack up during the proceedings because someone has swiped their card the wrong way by mistake, which is quite easy to do.
My main bone of contention is that this, is to all intents and purpose's, a back door way of "CLOCKING IN". This is a change to our terms and conditions of which nobody consulted us about and is a breach of contract. But then I have lost count of how many breaches of contract there has been over the last 12 months.
Don't even get me started on the FTL side of things.
