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ME and contract violations! Lol

Anyone got any updates on the situation? Just rumours everyday but haven't heard (directly) anyone being let go yet.

Give it a rest mate. Your intentions when you took the job was tax free Moolah, beach, high life, world travel and fly professionally all around the world.

No complaints then. World is suffering, not just your lil bubble.

Thats what I hate, No clear communication by the Company as to the numbers of layoffs to happen & when, because it is creating anxiety among the families... And we all know when Mental Health issue arises there are chances of Front page headline in leading Newspaper” 😆😆

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Originally Posted by FDS OFF BIRD ON (Post 10810117)

Just another rumour: if 2nd half of your June roster is published, it means you survived the 1st wave of terminations. :confused:

What first round? Care to share any info on this... I wasn't aware of any as yet.

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Originally Posted by Silver68 (Post 10810534)

What first round? Care to share any info on this... I wasn't aware of any as yet.

First round put some extreme cases out of the door, it happened a few weeks ago and targeted some pilots with big dents on their files. I friend of mine was fired with no explanation given after recovering from Covid19, he indeed had many sick leaves prior to that. That made him believe the main reason for letting him go was his bad medical record.

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Originally Posted by QRAviator (Post 10808583)

Anyone got any updates on the situation? Just rumours everyday but haven't heard (directly) anyone being let go yet.

An update in this AFP story:

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Qatar Airways to slash foreign pilots' pay: memoJune 15, 2020

Doha (AFP) - Qatar Airways will slash some pilots' salaries and make others redundant to offset the revenue collapse caused by the novel coronavirus travel crisis, it said in a memo seen by AFP Monday.

The Gulf airline, which flew to more than 170 destinations with 234 aircraft as of March, has been hit by airport closures and travel bans imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 disease.

The International Air Transport Association warned in April that air traffic in the Middle East and North Africa would plummet by more than half this year.

Qatar Airways' most senior pilots "will be subjected to a 25 percent reduction" in salaries, chief flight operations officer Jassim al-Haroon wrote to pilots in a memo dated June 4.

"In the upcoming weeks many of our captains, senior first officers, first officers and cadet pilots will be made redundant," Haroon wrote, without specifying how many would be let go.

More junior pilots will face an immediate 15 percent cut to their salaries, although the measures will not be applied to the airline's Qatari pilots, the memo added.

The airline warned cabin crew at the start of May that they faced "substantial" job losses.

"It's very gloomy. Communication hasn't been clear -- we don't know if this will be the last reduction or if there will be more," said one pilot, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.

"Without a union, they can do what they want to our contracts."

At the worst point of the novel coronavirus travel crisis, the airline had to slash its passenger services to just 35 destinations. It has since begun to resume some mothballed routes.

The economy of super-wealthy gas exporter Qatar has been buffeted by the global economic downturn and associated energy price collapse caused by the pandemic.

Doha-based sports broadcaster BeIN will shed around 100 jobs and cut some salaries in response to the virus downturn and the fallout from piracy of its output, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.

"We have started a limited redundancy programme in relation to our Middle East and North Africa business -- which will be as limited as possible, while securing our long-term future," BeIN said in a statement, adding that further details could not be provided as consultations were ongoing.

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Originally Posted by Airbubba (Post 10812535)

An update in this AFP story:

Bloomberg reported the same as well Yesterday. I wonder when A Memo comes out saying don’t leak internal memo’s otherwise disciplinary action would be taken, Tower Lads would be pissed off at AFP & Bloomberg reporting the transcript of the Memo emailed on 4th June.

Why is everybody leaving QR related whatsapp groups?

Because a rumor was afloat that When you go to Tower 1,2,3 IT will take your phone & check for messages” related to QR.

This rumor turned out to be true in the end” CC that have been terminated were told to handover their phones to IT” not all but I know 1 that was asked, she had a backup phone that she brought with her”

Its a mess in QR tbh, Decisions are made by senseless greedy people sitting at top.

Welcome to the ME . I've said it before !

Do they have the authority to demand and take your personal phone? It might not be the most democratic country in the world but I doubt your company can ask you that. Plus if you are in the office for that kind of meeting you would assume the decision to fire you has been taken already, so who cares at that point?

At one end they are firing people, but are opening new engineering bases in high cost stations like Sydney!
Who in their right mind would do that.
No money to pay for planes and staff at home base but "my mate has to get a job because he is migrating to Australia".
What a disgrace.

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Originally Posted by FlyingAce77 (Post 10813517)

They will never see my phone. Period.

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Originally Posted by dirk85 (Post 10813555)

They don’t. But I guess it’s easy to push cc to hand over their smartphones. We don’t have strong willed types in our ranks. Also met a few pilots with an evident lack of spine.

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Originally Posted by Papa_Golf (Post 10813585)

They will never see my phone. Period.

Same for me” I’m using a cheap Chinese phone that if I need to HR Employee Service center at Tower 2 will take that with me”
Harassment is at its core these days

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Originally Posted by ChocksOn (Post 10813578)

I saw the vacancies for 2 bases, But then someone in technical said Its JFK too, But whatever it is, makes no sense tbh.

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Originally Posted by Papa_Golf (Post 10813588)

They don’t. But I guess it’s easy to push cc to hand over their smartphones. We don’t have strong willed types in our ranks. Also met a few pilots with an evident lack of spine.

I can name a dozen who are willing to work for 30% pay as well” Deck Crew that is” Spineless dudes.

Flew with a guy who told me he would work for free. Speechless.

im Speechless” they don’t know their worth.