Sign On Bonuses
12-31-2007 | 06:48 AM
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Exactly. Anyone who does not see this at first glance does not understand the industry.
12-31-2007 | 06:57 AM
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I am all for signing bonuses. It allows people that aren't happy with where they work to move to another company without losing much pay by having to go back to year one wages. Signing bonuses also attracts qualified candidates. Since everyone seems to be afraid of low timers with jet transition courses, recruitment bonuses will bring experience. Bonuses are nothing new. It is a tool that corporations and the military have used for years. I can't see why pilots think it is such a bad thing. No one else in corporate America or the military seem to have a problem with it.
12-31-2007 | 11:58 AM
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I have been a lurker for years and created an account just to answer this.
I switched from Mesa CRJ (LAMA!) to CHQ CRJ last April and got a $2500 signing bonus (something like $1400 after taxes), and am definitely NOT on second year pay. Although my mind was already made up to make the lateral move, the bonus helped the transition a little.
I switched from Mesa CRJ (LAMA!) to CHQ CRJ last April and got a $2500 signing bonus (something like $1400 after taxes), and am definitely NOT on second year pay. Although my mind was already made up to make the lateral move, the bonus helped the transition a little.
01-01-2008 | 12:44 PM
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From: Trying to remember "Thrust Normal", "Checks", and something else besides "How are the rides today?"
I am all for signing bonuses. It allows people that aren't happy with where they work to move to another company without losing much pay by having to go back to year one wages. Signing bonuses also attracts qualified candidates. Since everyone seems to be afraid of low timers with jet transition courses, recruitment bonuses will bring experience. Bonuses are nothing new. It is a tool that corporations and the military have used for years. I can't see why pilots think it is such a bad thing. No one else in corporate America or the military seem to have a problem with it.
Pilots are not against signing bonuses. The reason that ALPA sued Pinnacle concerning their bonuses was because the company arbitrarily started giving bonuses. They also would not bargain with the Union while in Section six negotiations for a new contract concerning the new hire bonus issue. As a result any pay received by a pilot that is paid by the company and is outside the regulations of the respective Union's contract is a violation of that contract's "Status Quo" for the rest of the members. That is the problem with signing bonuses. Hope this helps in understanding the sometimes very confusing world of Pilots Unions and the confines of the Railway Labor Act.
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