Air NZ appeals in spat with pilots over 'cherry-picking' deal
Air NZ is appealing an Employment Court decision which it says lets the country's largest pilots' union cherry-pick the good parts of other collective employment agreements without having to accept the bad. In the Court of Appeal Monday, the carrier sought to overturn a 2014 judgment in the Employment Court allowing NZALPA to take clauses from collective agreements Air NZ made with other unions, in line with NZALPA's interpretation of its own collective agreement with Air NZ. The dispute centres on one clause in NZALPA's collective agreement, described as a ratchet clause, where the parties agree that "any agreement entered into by the company with any other pilot employee group which is more favourable than provided for in this agreement will be passed on to pilots covered by this agreement." <br/>
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Air NZ appeals in spat with pilots over 'cherry-picking' deal
Air NZ is appealing an Employment Court decision which it says lets the country's largest pilots' union cherry-pick the good parts of other collective employment agreements without having to accept the bad. In the Court of Appeal Monday, the carrier sought to overturn a 2014 judgment in the Employment Court allowing NZALPA to take clauses from collective agreements Air NZ made with other unions, in line with NZALPA's interpretation of its own collective agreement with Air NZ. The dispute centres on one clause in NZALPA's collective agreement, described as a ratchet clause, where the parties agree that "any agreement entered into by the company with any other pilot employee group which is more favourable than provided for in this agreement will be passed on to pilots covered by this agreement." <br/>
