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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 2:01 pm
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Originally Posted by cxfan1960
Now I understand. If they swap and get below 70 hours, they will still be paid 70 hours. If on the next month they are above 70 hours, they will be paid the actual hours. If they consistently do that, they will benefit from the system. This practice will not be fair to those who work consistently above the minimum.

That makes sense. Was there a miscommunication initially?
I am not sure. But I went through some of the comments on the facebook group, in general they think it is harder for them to swap under the new policy and it requires much more work on their part because the application will be denied if their hours fall below 70. There is a piece of information missing right now. What is the average number of hours on their assigned roaster (not the number from PR, but from FAU)? If it's close to 70, it will be hard to do swaps...

E.g. In order to swamp out long haul flights, they have to swamp out the short hauls first so they will be able to apply for the long haul swap.

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