TO: All Jetstar Pilots
FROM: AFAP Jetstar Council
DATE: 15 June 2011
RE: Jetstar Group Pilot Contracts – Update No. 12
SUCCESSFUL LEGAL STRATEGY
In our recent Briefings we have been stressing the need for all Jetstar pilots to show a strong and united front against the Jetstar Group Pilot Contracts.
As part of this, your AFAP Jetstar pilot representatives have been working with the AIPA Jetstar pilot representatives to share information and counter this attack on our EBA.
We have also received some enquiries regarding why our legal proceedings have been commenced on the basis that Jetstar Group Pty Limited has or proposes to contravene the Air Pilots Award.
Effective and sophisticated industrial relations practice requires strategy and the need to be able to separate the wood from the trees.
Jetstar has given an undertaking in the Federal Court last Friday that it will not employ FOs and cadets under its contract until 1 September 2011, by which time the case will be in the final stages of preparation for trial.
That means no new employees outside the EBA.
The net effect of the AFAP action has been to take away the company's ploy to get around the EBA.
We have every expectation that the AFAP action will be successful, and if it is, the contracts will be dead in the water. The savings which the company was trying to achieve by reducing EBA conditions will be unavailable and therefore the incentive to avoid the EBA will be gone.
At the same time your pilot representatives are continuing discussions with the company regarding the employment of all Australian based Jetstar pilots under our EBA.
As you can see, our strategy is successfully addressing all the core issues.
If you have any questions regarding this matter and/or to have a copy of the signed and sealed Federal Court Order of Justice Marshall stopping Jetstar Group from offering the contracts emailed to you, please contact Simon Lutton at the AFAP on
[email protected], ph (03) 9928 5737.
Regards
AFAP Jetstar Council