Jetsbest, you are spot on the money!
All the support functions of the award(WD) are excessive.
Add to that what happens when QF stuff up.
You fill out a form, send it in, gets scrutinised then sent back to you rejected.
Why?
Because there is so much grey in the award(WD) they have taken a different view.
So now you called up admin staff wasting their time and yours only to be frustrated by what seems a ridiculous decision.
Then you call AIPA who then calls up a series of admin staff with no progress.
The matter is then taken up with Flt Ops management who consider the risk in continuing with this stance of the admin staff/industrial manager.
Then a decision is made maybe to your benefit or not, irrelevant really because it is a waste of resources for everyone.
After all your a pilot and are employed to fly planes.
This whole process has taken up the time of half a dozen people.
How many times has this happened to you in your time at QF?
And why?
The award.
It's so complex and grey it's not funny.
It has protections yes, but smarts will keep those while clearing up the messy bits!