Academic research and studies Pay to fly

1 academic research , studies

1.1 french senate report
1.2 ghent university study
1.3 expert consultancy
1.4 french national assembly report

academic research , studies
french senate report

on april 10, 2014, senator Éric bocquet released information report on behalf of european affairs commission on social dumping in european transport. in aviation sector (chapter ii), subpart b (frauds), senator bocquet acknowledged strategic airlines luxembourg had, intents , purposes, set system of pay-to-fly, young pilots having pay in order fly , acquire flight hours .

ghent university study

co-financed european commission , carried out across 11 countries ghent university on behalf of european sectoral social dialogue committee civil aviation (notably aea, eca , etf), study on atypical employment in aviation presented during high-level atypical employment conference in paris on 12 , 13 february 2015.

accounting policy options, study concluded:

mandatory internship newly licensed cadets should considered. pilots fresh school in extremely weak labour market position finding jobs @ deplorable conditions or having resort pay-to-fly schemes in order clock flight experience required airlines offering better conditions. [...] our strong opinion pay-to-fly schemes should prohibited, not in european union, globally .

expert consultancy

the european commission (both dg move , dg empl) met eca , cockpitseeker on june 18 collect views , evidence.
partly in response mep jutta steinruck s questions, steer davies gleave delivered dg move study on employment , working conditions in air transport , airports on october 2, 2015. found that: pay-to-fly schemes schemes require pilots contribute financially airline in order allowed fly , gain requisite flight experience . junior pilots without significant amounts of flight (type rating) experience particularly vulnerable such practices, although not clear how prevalent is, or precisely airlines offering these schemes. [...] pay-to-fly acknowledged in published literature (e.g. atypical employment study, ghent university) issue stakeholders did not comment in area.

french national assembly report

on june 28, 2016, deputy member of assemblée nationale gilles savary presented information report on behalf of commission european affairs , focused on european strategy aviation issued european commission on december 7, 2015. paragraph ii.c.1. asserts senator bocquet s report published little more 2 years ago established enlighting overview on social dumping associated applicable right in air transport, remains relevant day . subsequent ii.c.1.a. titled european commission adopts near laissez-faire attitude towards labour aspect states:

representative stakeholder organizations heard rapporteur brought important nuance [...]: labour law in [aviation] sector not poorly applied insufficient. atypical employment forms (zero hours contracts, «pay-to-fly» scheme, fake self-employment , mailbox companies) aren t blame on diverging rule interpretation on loopholes .