Pilots’ scheme
PA Auckland The Airline Pilots' Association will try to convince Air New Zealand that its recovery programme does not depend on pilot redundancies. The pilots have their own scheme, called leave purchase, which gives the airline the savings it is looking for without making any pilots redundant. The leave purchase scheme centres on all pilots taking unpaid leave, rather than a number of them being made redundant. One proposal suggests that over a five-year period the
pilots get paid for four years work and take the other 12 months off as unpaid leave. However, it is believed that the company is not very impressed with the scheme largely because other unions and staff groups would not agree to pilots being retained while some of their members were made redundant. The general secretary of the association, Captain J. W. Dickinson, said the association would continue to try and get the company to accept leave purchase as an alternative to redundancy. However, he said, the association aimed to co-oper-ate with the airline’s plans for recovery.
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Press, 21 May 1982, Page 18
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