Do you do your recurrent training during your days off ?

[smarties]

For recurrent training, licence renewal etc., the airline I work for schedules it during our days off, up to 8 days per year.

Is it legal ?

What about you ?

[Hung start]

Legal? Must be where you are, or else your union has some explaining to do :)
Would never happen where I´m at!!

[smarties]

Hung start,

The last time a national (EU) tried to start an union (about 3 years ago), he got fired within 24 hours WITH compensation paid (a lot of money in fact), but got fired anyway.

So far no one has tried again...

[Jetdriver]

Days off are "Periods available for leisure and relaxation free from ALL DUTIES" !

Unless recurrent training is your idea of leisure and relaxation I should ask them to give you another day off.

For it to be "illegal" it would have to breach a statute in the country that you based.

[Techman]

It cannot be legal as recurrent or a check is a job requirement and therefore duty.
Just like a medical cannot be on a day off.
If it is done on a day off, you should be rostered a new day off.

If you can do those things on a day off, then you can also do normal duty on a day off???.

[Jetdriver]

Techman,

Not sure I agree with your comment that a "medical cannot be on a day off". If the company roster the medical then you have a valid point. Usually you are simply required to obtain a medical at your convenience. In this case you are not being rostered to obtain same, but have to show evidence by a certain date. In this case I dont believe that, although it is a company requirement, it counts as "duty". Renewing a license or obtaining a passport would fall into the same category.
My point being that unless the company required you to report somewhere on a specific date it could not be classed as duty.