Some How I'm Tired
26th Apr 2009, 16:51
Just a few things I would like to know before considering whether to sign up for SLS or not (CoS08 is DEFINITELY NO):
1. Has the Company been taken to task about the alleged 10% share buyback? Is SLS there just to fund future profits?
2. Why do other (non-pilot staff) at CX get to choose when they have leave, but we don't? Apparently Dragonair pilots get to choose their SLS slots.
3. How can we be guaranteed that this will truly be a LEAVE system? I can see CX placing SLS periods of one week immediately after an ULH pattern. By doing this, they effectively get one weeks' pay off us when we should be entitled to recovery time. If they do this in one week blocks, then they can get 2 (S/O), 3 (F/O) or 4 (CN) weeks pay off us with no productivity loss. Therefore we will still be flying 84 hours in our supposed LWOP months.
If all of these questions are not answered to a satisfactory level (ie not include the words "wherever possible"!), then it is an easy choice for me.
Hopefully everybody else sees this in a similar way.
S.H.I.T.
1. Has the Company been taken to task about the alleged 10% share buyback? Is SLS there just to fund future profits?
2. Why do other (non-pilot staff) at CX get to choose when they have leave, but we don't? Apparently Dragonair pilots get to choose their SLS slots.
3. How can we be guaranteed that this will truly be a LEAVE system? I can see CX placing SLS periods of one week immediately after an ULH pattern. By doing this, they effectively get one weeks' pay off us when we should be entitled to recovery time. If they do this in one week blocks, then they can get 2 (S/O), 3 (F/O) or 4 (CN) weeks pay off us with no productivity loss. Therefore we will still be flying 84 hours in our supposed LWOP months.
If all of these questions are not answered to a satisfactory level (ie not include the words "wherever possible"!), then it is an easy choice for me.
Hopefully everybody else sees this in a similar way.
S.H.I.T.