Confirmed - Herr Skull's nomination for ICAO Sec General
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Confirmed - Herr Skull's nomination for ICAO Sec General
Just confirming below the stated rumour from several months ago. Heaven help aviation worldwide if Capt Angry Pants gets annointed. I hope they have smash proof furniture in the ICAO passed cell......
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CASAment has confirmed its nomination of the former Civil Aviation Safety Authority chief John McCormick for the secretary-general’s posi*tion at the International Civil Avia*tion Organisation.
Mr McCormick finished his term last year amid controversy about the way CASA dealt with the industry and after a highly critical 2013 Senate committee report into the authority’s role in an investigation of the 2009 crash of a Pel-Air air ambulance off Norfolk Island.
The Aviation Safety Regulatory Review report, chaired by *industry *veteran David Forsyth, called for sweeping reforms after criticising CASA for taking too hard a line and maintaining an adversarial approach to the industry, which had lost trust in the authority.
The report was ordered by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss in response to industry criticism of CASA and concerns about the adequacy of the Aus*tralian Transport Safety Board’s investigation into the Pel-Air ditching.
It accused the regulator of adopting “an across-the-board hardline philosophy, which in the panel’s view is not appropriate for an advanced aviation nation such as Australia’’.
The government said it would investigate 36 of the review’s 37 recommendations.
Mr McCormick’s nomination appears to have been revealed at an ICAO seminar last year by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development’s inter*national standards director, Jamie Thomson.
A spokesman for Mr Truss this week confirmed the endorsement of Mr McCormick to replace Raymond Benjamin when his term expires on June 30.
“Having an Australian serve as ICAO secretary-general would present a unique opportunity to further enhance Australia’s international reputation in maintaining the safety and security of aviation and for Australia to continue to influence international aviation policy development,’’ the spokesman said.
“Mr McCormick has over 30 years of experience in the aviation industry as CEO of CASA, a senior pilot and airline manager, as well as experience in the RAAF. No other candidate for *secretary-general of ICAO can bring the same experience and qualifications to the role.’’
Mr McCormick finished his term last year amid controversy about the way CASA dealt with the industry and after a highly critical 2013 Senate committee report into the authority’s role in an investigation of the 2009 crash of a Pel-Air air ambulance off Norfolk Island.
The Aviation Safety Regulatory Review report, chaired by *industry *veteran David Forsyth, called for sweeping reforms after criticising CASA for taking too hard a line and maintaining an adversarial approach to the industry, which had lost trust in the authority.
The report was ordered by Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss in response to industry criticism of CASA and concerns about the adequacy of the Aus*tralian Transport Safety Board’s investigation into the Pel-Air ditching.
It accused the regulator of adopting “an across-the-board hardline philosophy, which in the panel’s view is not appropriate for an advanced aviation nation such as Australia’’.
The government said it would investigate 36 of the review’s 37 recommendations.
Mr McCormick’s nomination appears to have been revealed at an ICAO seminar last year by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development’s inter*national standards director, Jamie Thomson.
A spokesman for Mr Truss this week confirmed the endorsement of Mr McCormick to replace Raymond Benjamin when his term expires on June 30.
“Having an Australian serve as ICAO secretary-general would present a unique opportunity to further enhance Australia’s international reputation in maintaining the safety and security of aviation and for Australia to continue to influence international aviation policy development,’’ the spokesman said.
“Mr McCormick has over 30 years of experience in the aviation industry as CEO of CASA, a senior pilot and airline manager, as well as experience in the RAAF. No other candidate for *secretary-general of ICAO can bring the same experience and qualifications to the role.’’
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Please don't let such a thing happen.
With any luck! ICAO's own employment systems will see through the personae and not hear the screaming rants.
Montreal is not far enough away from Oz.
Tipsy
With any luck! ICAO's own employment systems will see through the personae and not hear the screaming rants.
Montreal is not far enough away from Oz.
Tipsy
Skullduggery...
Ok y'all.
Send your "assessment of fitness" for The Screamer to HR/ employment division whatever...
[email protected]
Or putting it to paper from this end... ICAO. 999 University St., MONTREAL
6BC JH7 Quebec. CANADA.
Dont just talk about it...DO IT..!!!
Send a copy to W(Tr)uss as well.
Send your "assessment of fitness" for The Screamer to HR/ employment division whatever...
[email protected]
Or putting it to paper from this end... ICAO. 999 University St., MONTREAL
6BC JH7 Quebec. CANADA.
Dont just talk about it...DO IT..!!!
Send a copy to W(Tr)uss as well.
Warning..warning Will Robinson.
Watch out world!!
On a somewhat similar topic I see Tony(I've lost my marbles)Abbott is planning on raiding the FF trough feeders days of rest..
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On a somewhat similar topic I see Tony(I've lost my marbles)Abbott is planning on raiding the FF trough feeders days of rest..
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Air safety public servants strap in for workplace turbulence
Hundreds more public servants have been told they must spend more days at their desks if they want a pay rise in 2015.
More than 800 officials at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) face the loss of three days off and another three days of personal leave entitlements in return for an unspecified pay rise.
But bosses at the air-safety agency admit that they still do not know if their package of cuts will be tough enough to satisfy the government's stringent Australian Public Service "bargaining framework".
CASA's negotiators told unions in late December that the agency had space in its budget for a pay rise but warned it would come at a price, with workers expected to trade away days off on Easter Saturday, Labor Day and their Christmas shutdown day.
The days are not mandated as public holidays in the National Employment Standards but are designated holidays in the CASA enterprise bargaining agreement.
Personal leave entitlements will be cut from 18 days to 15 under the proposal.
The authority's bosses also want to strip conditions and entitlements out of the enterprise agreement, which cannot be altered during the life of the deal, and move them to "policy", which has no such legal protection.
The move is in line with the government's instructions to strip down and simplify enterprise bargaining agreements across the service, with agency managers ordered to wage war on "duplication".
CASA wants procedures for dealing with underperformers taken out of the enterprise bargaining agreement and moved to policy, as well a requirement to hold talks with an agency employee before moving them from full-time to part-time work.
The authority also wants to be free of the requirement to consult staff and unions before changing employment policies.
The authority is waiting for approval from the Public Service Commission before it reveals fully what is on offer and put its bargaining proposal to its workforce for a vote.
But across the service, negotiations are stalled as agencies and departments battle to get the commission to sign off on proposals.
Only two agencies, the Financial Services Authority and the Employment Department, have managed to progress their negotiations to the point of a ballot of their workforces, with staff overwhelmingly rejecting pay offers of 1.3 and 1.4 per cent respectively.
A spokesman for the authority said it would not talk publicly about the talks but assured workers public holidays mandated by the Commonwealth legislation were not under threat.
"It is not appropriate for CASA to comment in detail on the enterprise agreement negotiations at this time," he said.
"Public holidays are mandated under the Fair Work Act and cannot be removed by an employer."
Hundreds more public servants have been told they must spend more days at their desks if they want a pay rise in 2015.
More than 800 officials at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) face the loss of three days off and another three days of personal leave entitlements in return for an unspecified pay rise.
But bosses at the air-safety agency admit that they still do not know if their package of cuts will be tough enough to satisfy the government's stringent Australian Public Service "bargaining framework".
CASA's negotiators told unions in late December that the agency had space in its budget for a pay rise but warned it would come at a price, with workers expected to trade away days off on Easter Saturday, Labor Day and their Christmas shutdown day.
The days are not mandated as public holidays in the National Employment Standards but are designated holidays in the CASA enterprise bargaining agreement.
Personal leave entitlements will be cut from 18 days to 15 under the proposal.
The authority's bosses also want to strip conditions and entitlements out of the enterprise agreement, which cannot be altered during the life of the deal, and move them to "policy", which has no such legal protection.
The move is in line with the government's instructions to strip down and simplify enterprise bargaining agreements across the service, with agency managers ordered to wage war on "duplication".
CASA wants procedures for dealing with underperformers taken out of the enterprise bargaining agreement and moved to policy, as well a requirement to hold talks with an agency employee before moving them from full-time to part-time work.
The authority also wants to be free of the requirement to consult staff and unions before changing employment policies.
The authority is waiting for approval from the Public Service Commission before it reveals fully what is on offer and put its bargaining proposal to its workforce for a vote.
But across the service, negotiations are stalled as agencies and departments battle to get the commission to sign off on proposals.
Only two agencies, the Financial Services Authority and the Employment Department, have managed to progress their negotiations to the point of a ballot of their workforces, with staff overwhelmingly rejecting pay offers of 1.3 and 1.4 per cent respectively.
A spokesman for the authority said it would not talk publicly about the talks but assured workers public holidays mandated by the Commonwealth legislation were not under threat.
"It is not appropriate for CASA to comment in detail on the enterprise agreement negotiations at this time," he said.
"Public holidays are mandated under the Fair Work Act and cannot be removed by an employer."
Last edited by Sarcs; 28th Jan 2015 at 10:07.
