Two pilots in Esbjerg have been fired from their jobs at the helicopter company Bel Air after a sensational course.
The two pilots argued at a meeting of the Bel Air would conclude an agreement with its pilots. A few hours after they were fired.
The course took place Monday, February 27. Here there was a board meeting in pilot union in Bel Air. At the meeting there was broad agreement that there should be contacted union Flyvebranchens Staff Union (FPU), so the 20 pilots in the company could get an agreement. In particular, two pilots were hot on the idea.
- One to two hours after the pilots board were the two pilots call with a message that they were fired. They were the only two who was fired, says Anders Mark Jensen, Vice President of FPU, to Avisen.dk.
The case of the two sacked pilots creates tarnished in Bel Air. The company is otherwise in stages was praised for being growth-comet among other things, the Stock Exchange and Danish Industry. The sole owner and director of the company Susanne Hessellund has been touted to be 'helicopter queen' because she as a pilot and director have knocked the company up to a big business.
The sacking of the two pilots coming very back of Anders Mark Jensen.
- It is deeply, deeply shocking, what is going on at Bel Air in Esbjerg. Here comes the employees and ask for something as basic as a convention, and then they met with layoffs. This reeks of something that you usually only see in Honduras or Bangladesh, says Anders Mark Jensen.
There is nothing unusual or dramatic in the termination of the two pilots. It tells the Chairman of the Board of Bel Air Aviation A / S, attorney January Godballe Børjesson.
- There is no kind of connection between the dismissal of the two pilots and the pilots' meeting that day. The decision redundancies was taken by Bel Air's board for some time before then, said Jan G. Børjesson.
- We expect a decline in production later this year. There is nothing special herein neither in terms of number of employees or else. Bel Air adapts as all other companies the capacity to expectations. We are in an industry where it is often necessary to hire or fire, said Jan G. Børjesson.
Fear Culture
The case of the two sacked pilots arouses according FPU feelings house in Bel Air.
- The layoffs have left a culture of fear in Bel Air, where people go around and are afraid of what will happen to them. Employees are deeply frustrated, says Anders Mark Jensen.
According to Bel Air's website yesterday the company into "employee care."
- It's hard to spot the employee care in this one case. On the contrary, the sacked employees had an iron fist in the face, just because they have asked for something as common as a convention, says Anders Mark Jensen.