RAT - are you serious? I know captains with thousands of jet hours who have been offered a flexi contract (easyJet wording not mine) after applying for what they thought was a permanent direct entry First Officer position.
It may be under the name of "New entrant contract" but it involves working for the first 12 months on an hourly rate for CTC before you are even eligible to be considered employable by easyJet. In the recent assessments, easyJet staff continually called this arrangement a flexi contract and not new entrant contract.
Whatever you call it you are paid per hour. They don't need you, they don't pay you. Thats my understanding. Sounds exactly like a Zero hours contract hence my interest in this thread.