Originally Posted by
jrsx99
Talked to a Republic recruiter 2 weeks ago. He said the training contract was only if you elected to take the $5,000 signing bonus. So.......no bonus = no contract.
Also, he said the bonus was paid only after you filed an expense report, so you don't get taxed on it as income.
I'm not a RAH employee, so I'm not sure if this is true or how the whole no tax/expense thing works. I'm just repeating what the recruiter told me
I don't know if this is true and I have not heard that this is the way it is, but I would NEVER believe ANYTHING an rjet recruiter told a prospective new hire.
This company likes to justify the terrible way it treats crew members and goes about business by saying "it's legal." It's not illegal to lie to a pilot to get him/her on property.
Not only that, but the HR department is the type of thinly staffed, overworked and underpaid revolving door that the company wishes the pilot ranks to be, and many HR folks just don't know what they are talking about.
Also, if true, this "expense report" bonus scheme sounds like a really "thin" manner of hiding income from the taxman. If the company is doing this and the crew member doesn't handle it properly at tax time, they are putting you at risk.
...but, passing risk and expense onto crew members is what rjet does.