Almost 5% of pilots refused shifts due to tiredness in the last 28 day roster period, senators told, amid concerns about back-to-back 12-hour shifts
Almost 5% of pilots refused shifts due to tiredness in the last 28 day roster period, senators told, amid concerns about back-to-back 12-hour daysis rostering pilots “closer to the limits” of anti-fatigue standards, amid fears some are working 12-hour days back-to-back that colleagues are hesitant to report out of fear of losing shifts.
Matthew Bouttell, executive manager of Casa’s regulatory oversight division, responded to questions from Labor senator Tony Sheldon about the pilots’ concerns, as well as the results of a TWU survey of 180 pilots – of the roughly 1,000 who work at Virgin – which showed that 85% said the rostering system had affected how they manage their fatigue.
“There’s been adjustments to their roster where they’re getting closer to the limits of that fatigue risk management system,” he said. Sheldon then noted “there’s a wealth of advice to say the pilots’ capacity to make an individualistic decision is extremely limited”., Sheldon noted the potential for pilots to fear that repeatedly turning down shifts could adversely affect how their manager sees them, or shift work onto colleagues also fatigued.
“We’ll continue to explore to make sure that there is nothing that’s being done that shouldn’t be done. Under the proposed deal – which has been agreed with the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, a union which represents a majority of pilots at Virgin – pilots would receive a 9.38% pay rise in the first year, and 3% rises in the second and third years, in return for the loss of the six days off.
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