My friend is the guy that does all the voice overs and radio commercials for a major airline.
Question:
Do you guys think that they should allow him to fly for free? I mean, after all, he works for them, and I'm sure he must generate millions of dollars for them. He says since he is not an "employee" of the company he is entitled to nothing.
what do you think?
Question:
Do you guys think that they should allow him to fly for free? I mean, after all, he works for them, and I'm sure he must generate millions of dollars for them. He says since he is not an "employee" of the company he is entitled to nothing.
what do you think?
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[This message has been edited by wharvey (edited 02-17-2001).]
[This message has been edited by wharvey (edited 02-17-2001).]
I agree with EastWest. He is not an employee... he is a "contractor". He has no right to the benefits of an employee.
If I was employee there, I know I would be very upset to know that a "non-employee" was getting the same perks I was getting. Probably would make it more difficult to use those perks as well.
William
If I was employee there, I know I would be very upset to know that a "non-employee" was getting the same perks I was getting. Probably would make it more difficult to use those perks as well.
William
I work for an airline and we have an outside contract company as our webmasters. They answer the passenger calls for technical website assistance but they do not receive any employee flight benefits.
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I have a friend who works at a firm that handles a major airline's Microsoft Access Development, and he IS entitled to a certain number (I forget how many, but something like 3 or 4) of free trips on this airline, travelling standby with the same status as an employee. he even gets ID90's when he doesn't travel for free.
I have done some writing for an inflight airline magazine. I would have loved to have been paid in travel, but I did not work for the airline (I was not even contracted by the airline), but for the magazine publisher. As a result, they weren't able to offer anything other than money (which isn't a bad second choice. 
) I suspect your friend also is not under contract to the airline, but to a talent agency.
) I suspect your friend also is not under contract to the airline, but to a talent agency.JohnPace,
The voice-over guy is simply doing work for hire. He is paid whatever he negotiated for the work. If he wants special travel perks, then the normal way for him to get them would be to negotiate them into his contract. Other than that, he's entitled to nothing special.
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/swaggie
The voice-over guy is simply doing work for hire. He is paid whatever he negotiated for the work. If he wants special travel perks, then the normal way for him to get them would be to negotiate them into his contract. Other than that, he's entitled to nothing special.
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/swaggie
Based on the responses I'm getting here, it looks like I've lost the bet.
Oh well...there's this horse running today in the 4th at the Big A, maybe I can get myself back to even.
thanks for all your help people.
DARN!
Oh well...there's this horse running today in the 4th at the Big A, maybe I can get myself back to even.
thanks for all your help people.
DARN!
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Non-revenue flight priveleges for vendors are not completely unusual. One guy who did many of my former company's trade shows, conferences etc. flew nonrevenue positive space (when on company business) with the same business pass priority as I did; in addition, he got a fixed number of space-available (leisure) passes. The SA passses were negotiated in his contract.