It has no connection to the situation in Norway or in Norwegian Airlines
It is absolutely applicable to Norwegian. You might review post #656 of this thread:
Officially there is freedom of association in NLH but the truth is quite different.
Of the three pilots who were selected to represent their colleagues, two of them a week ago received an email by management explaining that their 3-year contract which expires at the end of 2016 will not be renewed.
Here is another extract from the EU Commission funded report, absolutely applicable to Norwegian:
“Civil aviation legislation does not take into account the prevalence of different forms of atypical employment and outsourcing in the rapidly changing civil aviation industry. Moreover, social legislation is not able to tackle the new phenomena, leaving room for elaborate subcontracting chains and elaborate social as well as fiscal engineering. As a result, the competition nowadays is a true race to the bottom, which affects fair competition and worker’s rights as well as raises important issues in the field of safety and liability.
It need be noted that lacking general transparency and oversight in the aviation sector by labor inspection authorities render it highly difficult to distinguish between the legal reality and the de facto conditions crew members are subjected to. Moreover, mindful of the transitional nature of contemporary airline employers and the establishment of bases and subsidiaries across and outside Europe, in conjunction with free movement provisions enshrined in the Treaties, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to verify compliance with European provisions of the employment conditions of crew members. The lacking oversight and subsequent enforcement not inconceivably – further prompt lower compliance and abuse of the lacunas in European aviation law”
Bottom line:
A shelf-stacker employed by a UK supermarket has more employment rights than a LGW based 787 or 737 pilot flying for Norwegian.
I urge all those applying to Orient Ship Management or Rishworth for an indirect, temporary position with Norwegian, to read the EU Commission funded report and a copy of the respective agency employment contract:
https://www.eurocockpit.be/sites/def..._15_0212_f.pdf