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Qatar Airways demands payment for training from terminated flight crew
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#12This is pretty standard in many countries and industries.
Really, we need a law that turns it into a loan automatically with reasonable terms at the end of employment. But other than that, this is no different to any other student loan. Boomers killed free education, so now everyone pays one way or another.
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#14It's an interesting situation.
Qatar Airlines pilot requirements are ICAO ATP, which you can convert to an FAA license, or just go fly in China.
(It's more difficult to go the opposite way, from FAA to European (EASA.))
You will never hear of such a situation where the pilot is billed for ab initio training in the US because US airlines do very little such training, if any. When US airlines partner with a flight training academy, they just promise to let graduates apply. :)
Sometimes US airlines will pay for (jet) type ratings, which cost in the $20k range, and charge the pilot if they leave within a year.
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#15Are there any comprehensive websites that are documenting this type of behaviour for the future - like Glassdoor but for consumers and investors?
Given an equal choice between buying something from two companies I'd choose the one that had been nicer to its employees and community.
Case in point - I own a (quite small) number of shares in UK retailer Hotel Chocolat. I'd probably have sold them if it wasn't for their apparently decent policy: https://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/corona-virus-updates.html
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#16Lawyer up.
I guess this will be won, if at all, in the court of popular opinion
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#17This is pretty standard in many countries and industries. Really, we need a law that turns it into a loan automatically with reasonable terms at the end of employment. But other than that, this is no different to any other student loan. Boomers killed free education, so now everyone pays one way or another.
How did I kill free education?
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#18This is pretty standard in many countries and industries. Really, we need a law that turns it into a loan automatically with reasonable terms at the end of employment. But other than that, this is no different to any other student loan. Boomers killed free education, so now everyone pays one way or another.
>>Boomers killed free education, so now everyone pays one way or another.
This anglo-centric assumption is killing me on HN. My "boomer" parents were deep in a communist state at my age and they could only dream of the quality of life that we enjoy today. But hey they are "boomers" so fuck them, right?
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#19This is pretty standard in many countries and industries. Really, we need a law that turns it into a loan automatically with reasonable terms at the end of employment. But other than that, this is no different to any other student loan. Boomers killed free education, so now everyone pays one way or another.
Actually not most countries strictly limit /regulate this sort behaviour and if your made redundant I suspect that the employer would not be able to recover anything.
Unfortunately employment practices in that part of the world are Horrific - its just normally poor navvies employed on building sites get the worst of it - see some of the coverage of the word cup construction in Quatar
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#20Training was done in 2013 apparently. Still hasn't paid it by working for 7 years? Makes no sense.