Inkjet;
Page 55 of the EU Commission funded, Atypical Employment in Aviation Report, defines atypical employment as:
“Atypical employment in the European aviation industry generally manifests itself as fixed-term work, part-time work, fixed-term work via work agencies, (bogus) self-employment and/or zero-hour contracts”
https://www.eurocockpit.be/sites/def..._15_0212_f.pdf
As you know, Orient Ship Management agency is fractionally owned by a distant, non-airline, Norwegian asset/holding/resource group. OSM employs pilots and flight attendants and rents them temporarily to a Norwegian AOC airline. Crews may be returned to OSM by the respective Norwegian airline, without notice reason or recourse.
This airline “unemployment” shell game is clearly an atypical labor model, previously described by the DOT as “novel and complex”. The scheme permits Norwegian to have favorable financing from the banks. As confirmed by Kjos to VG News:
”Norwegian boss is crystal clear that he is not at all interested in negotiating the pilots demands for connection to the parent NAS [the AOC holder] - This will eliminate our ability to finance the 240 planes. With such a model we would not have gotten the funding of the banks to operate”:
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/k...lt/a/23408996/
The hypocrisy of the Norwegian regime never ceases to amaze. Kjos wrote to the DOT on June 1, 2015, testifying;
“Norwegian has regularly utilized the services of employment agencies for the recruitment of temporary provision of crews for a transitional period of 24-26 months in connection with the opening of new bases”
Is the statement by Kjos honest or dishonest?
https://www.regulations.gov/document...2013-0204-0203
(open pdf file and scroll to letter)