Air France will impose pay cuts pilots – L’Express

Air France will be able to implement the measures approved by the pilots as part of the agreement “Transform 2015″. These had never been implemented because of a dispute between management and the SNPL, majority union in this category of staff. The board of Air France-KLM administration has however allowed on Tuesday its subsidiary Air France to impose from 1 June to pilot pay cuts.

The Bobigny court and the Court of Appeal of Paris had authorized the company CEO, Frédéric Gagey, to decide on this and the board of directors of the parent “approved implementation of this trade “Tuesday, said the HR company, Gilles Gateau reporters. “There is no passage in force. What applies, the balance of the previous agreement, in accordance with court decisions.”

Night Hours least plus

As a result, the remuneration of pilots drop since June, with hours of night increased by 40% against 50% to date, less favorable calculation for ground activities and preparation time reduced ground by half for instructors. The company also provides “annualization 12 days off” from April 2017.

All of these measures “represent between 20 and 30 million a year for improvement competitiveness for the company “or” between 2% and 3% of payroll drivers, “said Gilles Gateau. Air France, however, renounces only change the grid progress of its pilots, which will be renegotiated. “We will invite the representative trade unions on the modalities of this review,” he said.

The expected challenges in the legal field

The HRD has minimized the risk of pilot strike after these announcements. “I never heard him the fact that there may be a call for strike on the implementation of this trade,” he said, stressing that this decision is “under the implementation of an agreement signed by the SNPL “. And insist: “They are often the first to call for the respect of signed agreements, it seems important to me that it works both ways.”

However, the company “expects a dispute over the legal field,” with one hand a cassation appeal filed by the SNPL against arbitration and, on the other hand ” individual litigation that each driver may go to industrial tribunals trigger the increase of its night hours, “he continued, assuring be” confident “about the outcome of these proceedings.