Australian Jobs...jetstar are employing foreign flight attendants...now Pilots what do you think of
Posted by: di
17th Aug 2010 05:48pm
My concern is how are they doing this?Legally that is...its not as if we dont have enough locals to be flight attendants.
Pilots are next as they look at employing contract pilots,some part time,from overseas.Many young aussies have struggeled to make it into an airline(ie getting there hours up on small aeroplanes at great expense to themselves....there wont be jobs for them if we employ foreign crew here.At the momment my daughter cant get a job as a flight attendent with them as she is a local!They are employing Thai nationals and singapore crew,yet they are doing melb -hawaii,melb. fro example...I can see aussie jobs for staff dissapearing and now pilots!Standards and safety come into question now.Pilots have been empoyed in other countries to do contract work and safty has been compromised.Casa are aware of this as is Julia Gillard...but both have done nothing!What do you think...shouldnt we be protecting aussie jobs and safety standards?
PukPuk
- 26th Oct 2010 08:06am
If the foreiners are being employed on the same standards (ie salary, conditions, incentives etc) as a domestic employee would be then it must be down to the difference in work attitudes. It would then be up to the traditional lazy employee to lift their standards. If it is because Jetstar can under provide for employee conditions, then it is totally wrong and action needs to be taken.
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