Fatigue Regulation and Industrial Agreements covering hours of work
The prescribed flight and duty limits of CAO 48 are due to be expunged and will come under the control of the business operators. The matter of flight and duty time limits were borne from industrial agreements circa early 1950's and it is due to this circumstance why many agreements covering hours of work and rostering were tied to the ANO/CAO part 48.
Now this relationship will be severed, industrial agreements covering pilots should be structured to specify hours of work on the basis of remuneration. The subject of hours of work (rostering) should no longer be based on the limits of fatigue regulation and any element of industrial agreements that does so, should be removed. Compliance of fatigue mamanagement rules should be a seperate matter between the business operator and the relevant authority.
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