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Any opportunity a low time pilot gets is a great opportunity. Canadian has given many people a chance to fly. Living up to a contract or a commitment is the honorable thing to do when someone has given you the break you need. If all people had done this, I guess these contracts would not be an issue. However, when a person gives over 2 years to the company and gets layed off, how can that company expect you to wait by the phone and not find work else where to keep food on the table. To say sorry but we have no use for you at this time, but we will call you when we need you, and if you are not available, you owe us the money remaining in your training bond. This is not a fair practice.

 

Until recently, I have not had to sign a training bond with a company. This time I had to. I have no problems with living up to the contract that I had signed. However, if I was layed off, I would not expect a letter like this one.

 

 

 

 

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Rotorhead is correct, we should not compare or confuse CHC with CHL. But in saying that, the old CHW did not measure up to the high standards of the mother corporation either. So the problem here is with the old CHW and the new CHL....Hmmm, that narrows it down a bit.

CTD is correct, with all of those positive attributes, why are people still leaving, and why did 75% of their 1996 roster already leave?????

(100's and 100's of thousands of hours of safe experience?)

Hmmm? I'm guessing that a thread on why we all left would be quite interesting, but not allowed due to some of the personal issues and names mentioned.

 

####, you start it, and I'll see if my lawyer will approve my 10 page post....9.gif

Coolhand, have you got Canada Labor Relations Board involved yet? The LRB loves to pound on unethical companies like this. In my friends case, they were going to seriously nail some suits to the cross....but unfortunately, company X decided to settle it before the court date.

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Actually, I left on good terms, and did it to go to Bell, which I considered a ''step up''. What did I know? I had my complaints with CH-whatever, but in reality they poured hundreds of thousands of $$ into me, and I would have never had the opportunities I did had I not worked for them. I gave them most of my adulthood, and they gave me a resumé.

 

I just wish I could run it for three years, and have a go at that terrible virus they have.

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RDM - you''re right - I''m on a s-l-o-w link at the moment, and I should have mentioned that a typical lawyer''s only function is to absorb money into their profession from mug punters, regardless of the job done. When it comes to aviation, make sure you have one that specialises, because most of them just look at the rules and stop there.

 

I amazes me how many companies spend millions of dollars on a machine, and cheapskate on the driver, who is a minimal part of the cost. Does it never occur to these people that they might try to run a good company and get somebody to *want* to stay rather than force them? If some of the people I have met were to drown in the South Seas, I suspect that you would find their bodies circling the sharks.

 

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My friend and a couple of others have talked to the labour relations board and are now starting a file. Not only is the company trying to get money for the training, but they are also refusing to pay them their holiday pay. Another item that is on the contract that low time pilots are required to sign. There must be a few others that have run into this problem. maybe labour relations will investigate more thoroughly.

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