Thinking of joining Norwegian?
This may be of interest to you before you make up your mind;
Dear Pilots,
We have spoken and mailed with very many of you regarding your concern over the contract offer from OSM and the threatening tone when you have communicated that you are reluctant to sign yet. The agreement was that if you don’t belong to the 1st or 2nd group, you could choose to stay with your agency until our (Xxxxxx) contract with Norwegian runs out in mid 2015. We have several times received confirmation from Norwegian/NAR on this issue and we have received feedback from some of you who have contacted Norwegian, and in most cases, Norwegian have responded that it is perfectly OK to await the change to OSM until end of June 2015.
However, some of you who have received the offer to change to OSM 01.01.15 – which was recently changed to 01.02.15 due to your notice period with your present employer (termination notice required)– and who don’t want to change yet, feel insecure due to the miscommunication, threats and deviation from the initial information sent to you all.
As your employer, we have done our best to keep you informed in these challenging times for you, understanding that this concerns your career and livelihood, but this is not easy when the game rules change as we go along and a variety of information coming from all possible angles.
Since the deadline from OSM is approaching soon, we have asked NAR for a firm and final answer as to what exactly are the conditions regarding the future for the pilots with Norwegian if they choose to stay with us for a while longer. Please see below the answer we received:
”De piloter som har fått ett erbjudande men vars kontrakt med er inte löpt ut ännu kan välja att stanna hos er eller acceptera erbjudandet de fått med startdatum 1 februari. Väljer de att tacka nej till erbjudandet de fått nu och stanna hos er så kan vi inte garantera att de får ett nytt erbjudande i juni men förhoppningsvis så har vi behov av dem då. Som ni vet said har vi ett väldigt stort överskott av piloter just nu varför vi har permitterat ett stort antal piloter under vintern. Behovskalkylerna för april och framöver är inte klara ännu så därför kan vi inte ge några garantier som piloten nedan vill ha.
Mvh
Krister”
TRANSLATION into English:
“Those pilots who have received an offer but whose contract with you has not expired yet, may choose to stay with you or accept the offer they received with the start date February 1st. If they choose to decline the offer they received now and stay with you, we cannot guarantee that they get a new offer in June, but hopefully we have need for them then. As you know, we have a very large surplus of pilots right now which is why we have laid off a large number of pilots during the winter. Estimates for April and the future is not clear yet so therefore we can give no assurance that the pilot want.
Brgds
Krister”
You are more than welcome to stay with Xxxxxxx until our contract with Norwegian runs out, but you need to know that Norwegian may take that as an opportunity to adjust their number of pilots. We would also like to emphasize that theoretically, it is only the pilots who have been with us for more than 12 months who have received an offer from OSM for the time being. The rest of you will receive an offer to sign with OSM when your 12 months is up. This has to do with our original agreement with NAR.
We remain at your full disposal.
Best regards from all of us at Xxxxxx