Zero Hour Contracts?
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Zero Hour Contracts?
Forgive me for asking a question that's probably been asked before but can anyone tell me which (if any) airlines hire pilots on zero hour contracts?
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There are floating around some zero hour contracts where you only get paid when you are scheduled to fly; and there are contracts were you get zero pay for duty worked. Kinda interesting, so check the small print.
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The Parc contract at easyJet is zero hours. You're only supposed to do a maximum of twelve months on it nowadays though.
There is some kind of a nod to sick pay, never had to test that though. Pay purely by the Scheduled Block Hour. That determines your gross figure at the end of the month. They'll honour the block hours planned for the sectors if you end up doing the sector in less.
However, watch out because if any sectors are canned due to tech reasons or your roster changes and you get put on an AMS instead of a TLV, for example, then you've just lost money. With the roster instability in Gatwick especially this can prove a problem.
There is some kind of a nod to sick pay, never had to test that though. Pay purely by the Scheduled Block Hour. That determines your gross figure at the end of the month. They'll honour the block hours planned for the sectors if you end up doing the sector in less.
However, watch out because if any sectors are canned due to tech reasons or your roster changes and you get put on an AMS instead of a TLV, for example, then you've just lost money. With the roster instability in Gatwick especially this can prove a problem.
Last edited by RexBanner; 13th June 2016 at 08:22.
