Will explain.
they have the highest turnover of staff its laughable
Staff are forced to sign contracts, that state the following, any training that the company has performed will have to be repaid within a three year period if you resign or leave.
I have known staff that have been forced to pay over $3000
The shift work and hours of pay are laughable.
Staff only get paid for "time in the sky"
If a plane break downs or they cant fly, you dont get paid.
therefore they have staff sitting around airports around australia due to storms, mechnical failures, strikes etc not getting paid.
Repayment of training is standard in many businesses surely Jack? Its called a ROSO (Return Of Service Obligation) in the military but its prevalent in a lot of businesses nowadays. And I can't conceive that in this country in an industry as heavily union influenced as the aviation industry with its regulated salary awards/conditions that the conditions you describe above can possibly exist. Do you know this for a fact or as a third party indication? Sounds quite implausible to me but I don't know the facts so I'm open to be shown the reality (if it is the reality).
Since running my own business i'm out of the loop on these matters, so to speak, but I'd never heard of such a thing as a ROSO, smokey. Im not surprised that it occurs in the the Military though, but I'm not sure how prevalant it would be in the wider community.
The airline industry isn't as unionised as you may think. Virgin is largely (wholly?) a non union workforce, being deliberately set up that way from the start. I don't know about Tiger but if they have ROSOs then I doubt they would be. Last year i flew back into Darwin to be greeted by an electrical storm, which meant the Baggage handlers would not go out into the open so we had nearly a hour delay waiting to collect our luggage. I was told by a staff member that Quantas/Jetstar staff would not go out when there was lightning about but Tiger and Virgin staff had to. This indicates to me that Tiger is also a non unionised workforce.
not so true there Al. Wife has worked at Virgin for the last 7 years and it is a Union workforce but a very weak one.
Jack is absolutely spot on about Tiger. Their staff are forced to work 15 hour shifts putting the wider community at risk.
I remember my cousin who worked at Tiger once told me she fell asleep on the aircraft after working 15 hours straight.
Just the right type of people you want looking after you if poo hit the fan.
Virgin will be the new Qantas within 5 years. Virgin as you now see it will not exist complete change of name and business class and staff to wear ties and vests. They are going corporate. Woman will still look good though.
