Quotes quotes quotes..... Sick of them! Let's be brutally honest here. CX/Swire are here to maximise profit. Employees are here for employment reasons (we all need a job) and to better their T's & C's to their best of their ability. At the end if the day this will always ALWAYS be an eternal conflict rightly or wrongly.
Unfortunately, in these days of hugging trees and voting 'Yes', HKG and most of their 19th Century Corporate Mentality just simply does not equate. Let's be honest, from that complete Irish Tosser finally realising, that "maybe I shouldn't charge the pilots to do their Sim checks which they have to do by Law, but I'll still hit 'em for the privilege of working for me" and those other outrageous extra charges from paying for your own uniform and paying for your own airfare to the interview plus plus plus simply for "The Privelge" is gone. Stand up folks! If you have to pay for any of that.... Walk. To a certain extent I strongly disagree with the 'Bond Concept'. Think about this. Why would you need to charge a Bond if your employees walked? Anyhow, I digress, & I am the first person to admit that (for the moment) I am not subject t to such circumstances.
There was a quote (yes, sick of quotes) a few years ago from a long forgotten boss in CX. His was the only quote to which I subscribe. I feel it will be telling in the weeks and months to come. Something about Market Forces.