End of Training Bonds in Canada?
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Timing?
Atta Boy Kent, ALPA...
Maybe a little like closing the barn door after the horse has gone for some (JG and others) And does anyone find it interesting that Laflamme is involved after he was TC's senior admin guy and maybe could have listened and helped years ago when this was looked at (and not for the first time) and companies like C3 and others said they would go "out of business" if duty times and training bonds were changed in favour of employees....Where were you guys then? Hope it works, Canada needs to come to grips with it's seriously third world aviation policies, operators and regulators...I hope this generates some good debate!
Maybe a little like closing the barn door after the horse has gone for some (JG and others) And does anyone find it interesting that Laflamme is involved after he was TC's senior admin guy and maybe could have listened and helped years ago when this was looked at (and not for the first time) and companies like C3 and others said they would go "out of business" if duty times and training bonds were changed in favour of employees....Where were you guys then? Hope it works, Canada needs to come to grips with it's seriously third world aviation policies, operators and regulators...I hope this generates some good debate!
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From: Raincoast
traing bonds should be against the law, period. IMHO. It is a form of "indenture" which was the PC word for slavery in the not so recent past...
It is shameful that the profession had ever been brought to the level of "bonding" in the first place.
Airlines need to pass their costs on to the customers, not the employees!
If some slacker from Ottawa wants to fly to Vancouver for the price of a bus ticket and take his/her own Subway sandwich and a bottle of water on board, that's just fine. But it shouldn't mean that we have to pay for our own training when a type rating is required within a contract of employment with an airline.
It is shameful that the profession had ever been brought to the level of "bonding" in the first place.
Airlines need to pass their costs on to the customers, not the employees!
If some slacker from Ottawa wants to fly to Vancouver for the price of a bus ticket and take his/her own Subway sandwich and a bottle of water on board, that's just fine. But it shouldn't mean that we have to pay for our own training when a type rating is required within a contract of employment with an airline.
