Today, i was working with an apprentice, a recent joiner to our airline, who had spent 18 months in the Air Corps. We were chatting about his experiences, especially concerning training and exams and so on, as I wanted to see how much he had covered in his time there. It turned out that he and several of his classmates had all applied to Lingus, the other airlines and the AC for apprenticeships and the AC came up first, so he and they joined. They heard nothing from Lingus over time so he and they assumed that they had failed to get in and went about their business in the Air Corps and time passed. Out of the blue, Lingus rings him and offers him an apprenticeship, which he is keen to accept, so he applies to leave the AC by purchase and a couple more lads decide to quit and join Lingus. The AC ask why he wants to leave and encourages him to reconsider but he decides to leave but the kicker is that the DoD want EU 5000 back. This sum is hard to come up with so it looks like he is stuck in the AC for the forseeable. One of the other lads digs up his contract and takes it to a solicitor, to see if there is any way of getting a reduction on the 5000. The solicitor takes one look at the document and tells him that it is invalid because, in his words, "someone had tippexed out parts of the wording before the lads signed it". You could have knocked me down with a feather when I heard that! In the end, he got out for 1200 Euros and joined us. Really, in this day and age, is someone in the DoD resorting to Tippex when writing contracts of employment??
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Originally posted by Sparky42 View PostMemorandum of Understanding I would guess?Last edited by northie; 4 August 2019, 23:08.
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