Labour Law
EK do not follow labour law full stop (maybe the post above explains why), so many provisions regarding the splitting of leave, overtime during fridays, public holidays, extra days off for fridays worked and many many more.
However in their defense it would be almost impossible for them to comply with these rules and operate a 24hr airline. That's fine for us sensible people but it does get a tad annoying when the horse slithered into the room a few years back and started spouting labour law and that we were only entitled to 30 days leave....well I guess that was true but he forgot to mention the other 11 public holidays that if we had to work on under "labour law" we would be given overtime plus days off in lieu..... Oh and after 8 hours of work we could all F%$k off home for the day...like those in the office do.
The bottom line is that there must be give and take, though I feel that the take is a little one sided now days.