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BALPA Welcomes the end to ‘Fire and Re-hire’

BALPA welcomes the decisive action to end the unfair practice of fire and re-hire within the first 100 days of the new government in today’s #KingsSpeech.

We’ve long advocated for this ban, standing firm in our commitment to protect workers’ rights. Over 2 years on from the P&O scandal, BALPA joined Nautilus International, the Trades Union Congress (The TUC) and RMT Union and called for the ending of the abusive practice. Additionally, the BALPA manifesto called for the bolstering of workers’ rights and banning of fire and re-hire.

BALPA General Secretary, Amy Leversidge, said:

“We’re happy to see the degrading, ugly and divisive industrial practice of ‘fire and re-hire’, in which companies essentially blackmail their employees to accept inferior terms and conditions or else threaten to fire and then rehire them has ended. This is a good first step ensuring workers’ rights are bolstered under this new government.”

BALPA is the voice of UK pilots.


 

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