Wow, talk about taking an informative post and putting a negative spin on it all!
Just factual information, same as your post, many established pilots are not fully aware of the PPY50 pilots concerns, which the new joiners will be subject to.
I'm confused about the Carmen issue, why would Carmen be programmed to penalise blocks of days off?
Productivity - roster someone four days off then 7 on and same again over 28 days you need more days off in the month to achieve long consecutive working patterns,throw the odd one or two between long blocks of work and you need less days off over the month, of course it means you can't ask someone to do overtime without impacting remaining roster.
We all have to have a minimum number so what would be the point of penalising blocks when it also penalises singles?
As above, Only reason singles are penalised are because they are part of rostering agreement, otherwise I'm sure they would all be singles apart from legal requirements,penalising blocks of days off is a rostering efficiency rule rather than industrial agreement compliance rule as single days off.
Ps holiday concessions also pro-rated due to ppy50 status