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Re: FP60 update Federal Court of Appeals

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I'll tell you what Fanblade, I'm going to assume for now that you're right and that the loss of compensation continues to 65 and in fact is never recovered for junior pilots. But I grudgingly admit I'm not a math whizz and useless at spreadsheets so if you'll indulge me perhaps you can explain it in terms I can understand. So how about leading me there through some simple questions. To start:

If everybody works to 65 and everything else being equal, is any pilot's career different from 2017 to 65 than it would have been from 2012 to 60? If so, what is different?
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At least we've moved to the point where it is acknowledged that we must now work past 60. If we must, how is it a choice. I can now "choose" to substitute 2012-2017 earnings for my 2032-2037 earnings. Airbus FO, and year 1, 2 captain for...wait for it...5 yrs of 12-yr B777 captain. Those years still exist, but they are now in 2037-2042. Some choice.
Having said that, I accept that this is now the law. I just don't see how anybody is due any compensation for it changing.
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Fanblade: Here is how I see your assumptions.

First, you have correctly summarized that there would be a loss of income for the first five years from 2012. Everyone gets that. As Rockie states, after five years everyone's seniority that has been frozen, assuming no retirements, starts to move again, picking up where it was in 2012 with advancement in seniority and pay identical to what it would have been, absent the freeze, as the senior pilots gradually move off the list, just as they would have in 2012 without the change in the maximum age.

As I see it, however, you are counting a loss in income from 2017 onward not in relation to where the pilot would have been, absent the freeze, but in relation to the pilots who are still on the list ahead of that individual. You assume that because they are still there and that the individual is earning less than the pilots above him or her, that there is a continuing loss of income. But there isn't any loss from that point onward, as the seniority (and income) progresses exactly as it would have, absent the freeze for five years.

The correct frame of reference is found not by looking at where one is in relation to the pilots ahead on the seniority list, but instead, in relation to where one would have been on the seniority list, absent the freeze. That translates simply to a five year delay in seniority and income progression, at a fixed income level, with the progression in seniority and pay being identical from 2017 to retirement, assuming that one stays to age 65, as it would have been from 2012 to retirement, assuming that one stays to age 60.

So what we have then is a five year delay in seniority and income progression, with five years added to the career at a fixed rate of income, plus the same income that would have previously been earned to age 60, that is now earned to age 65. The difference is simply five more years of salary at a flat rate.

The incorrect frame of reference leads you to assume a continuing, compounding loss of income, where there is none.

Having said that, there is a potential for loss of income. That potential loss would occur if one does not stay to age 65. That is because if one leaves before age 65, not only does one not get the salary for the final years foregone under age 65, but one also loses on the seniority progression that could impact on the equipment assignment and corresponding pay rates in the final years, as well as on the income used to calculate the pension payments, being the best 60 months.

The net loss for leaving before age 65 is the sum of: lost income for the number of months under age 65, the difference in pay rates resulting from not reaching the highest-rated equipment that one would have flown up to age 65 plus the potential adverse effect on pension income (all negatives), all balanced off against the surplus resulting from the five additional years of stagnant salary earned between 2012 and 2017. For each individual, the net effect in lifetime income will be different, depending on age, seniority, years of service at the chosen retirement date, and the number of months of employment foregone between age 60 and 65, with one further proviso.

When an individual elects to retire, he or she receives pension income. If one keeps working when one could have retired, pension income obviously doesn't enter into the equation. Although additional years of service and higher pay levels may result in higher annual pension payments and survivor benefits during the period of retirement when retirement actually begins, the pension and survivor benefits will be earned for a shorter period of time. The income earned while working beyond age 60 therefore should be netted out against the amount of the pension not being paid during that period. Other considerations include non-monetary factors, such as health, lifestyle and quality of life.
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Dockjock wrote:I accept that this is now the law. I just don't see how anybody is due any compensation for it changing.
The fact is that they are not due any compensation for it changing.

But they are due compensation for the fact that before the human rights act exemption was repealed in 2012, the exemption was conditional on age 60 being the normal age of retirement for airline pilots in Canada.

Sometime after the year 2000 but not later than the year 2005, age 60 was no longer the normal age of retirement for airline pilots in Canada. As a result, after 2005 those pilots whose employment was terminated by reason of the age 60 restriction in the contract had their employment wrongfully terminated.

Neither Air Canada nor ACPA did any assessment, after 2005, to determine what the normal age of retirement for pilots in the Canadian airline industry actually was. They simply blindly forged ahead with the status quo, even though it was apparent that all of the other airlines in Canada had ended mandatory retirement at age 60 for pilots.

It is because their employment was wrongfully terminated that they are entitled to compensation.
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The fact is that they are not due any compensation for it changing.

But they are due compensation for the fact that before the human rights act exemption was repealed in 2012, the exemption was conditional on age 60 being the normal age of retirement for airline pilots in Canada.

Define "normal age of retirement". What "defining moment" in Canadian aviation history are you using to determine this "sometime before 2012" date? It's rather important.

Sometime after the year 2000 but not later than the year 2005, age 60 was no longer the normal age of retirement for airline pilots in Canada. As a result, after 2005 those pilots whose employment was terminated by reason of the age 60 restriction in the contract had their employment wrongfully terminated.

Geez...that's pretty vague.....sometime after but not before......hope you're not using that arguement in front of a judge.

Neither Air Canada nor ACPA did any assessment, after 2005, to determine what the normal age of retirement for pilots in the Canadian airline industry actually was. They simply blindly forged ahead with the status quo, even though it was apparent that all of the other airlines in Canada had ended mandatory retirement at age 60 for pilots.

Air Canada was supose to just blindly follow which other Canadian airlines leed in extending the agreed upon retirement age? Jazz??? Westjet??? Are you aware of the reason it was changed at these carriers and under what circumstanses???

It is because their employment was wrongfully terminated that they are entitled to compensation.

We'll see what they're entitled to....however if any of these arguements are used.....good luck.
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dukepoint wrote:Geez...that's pretty vague.....sometime after but not before......hope you're not using that arguement in front of a judge.

Air Canada was supose to just blindly follow which other Canadian airlines leed in extending the agreed upon retirement age? Jazz??? Westjet??? Are you aware of the reason it was changed at these carriers and under what circumstanses???
I’ll leave it to the lawyers to make the arguments. I am simply restating the explanation of the facts and the law that was provided to our group.

Vague or not, the point is, it is up to the employer, prior to terminating the employment of someone, to ensure that that termination is in compliance with the law. The onus does not rest with the employee to show age 60 was not the normal age of retirement.

Therefore, Air Canada had to demonstrate to the tribunal that its pilots, the only pilots forced to retire at age 60 after 2005, were the majority of airline pilots in Canada. According to the federal court, if failed to do so when it failed to recognize the pilots from its main competitors as being in the pool of comparator pilots used to assess the normal age of retirement.

Air Canada is now trying to persuade the court of appeal that the finding of the federal court should not be upheld.

Remember though, its position before the tribunal was that pilots from WestJet, AirTransat and SkyService were not to be considered as comparator pilots to Air Canada pilots even though they flew similar aircraft to similar destinations, but that pilots from the smaller carriers such as those operating float planes in the arctic should be the pilots used for comparators. Go figure. Do you reckon that the court of appeal will buy that argument?

It is irrelevant to the appeal why the other carriers chose to move off age 60. Age discrimination was prohibited but termination at the normal age of retirement was permitted as an exception to the rule. All that matters for the purpose of this case is that Air Canada showed that its termination of the pilots met the exemption. If it didn’t, there was no legal justification for terminating their employment.

It’s almost like “buyer beware”. Before you commit yourself (or your company) to a course of action, you have a responsibility to ensure that the action about to be taken will be one that won’t come back to haunt you later. And it doesn't matter whether nobody held you accountable in the past. Every single termination of employment was possible only so long as the mandatory retirement exemption was applicable.

That means that an individual assessment should have been carried out for each pilot about to be terminated any time after the numbers started to change, and especially before pilots forced to retire at age 60 moved into the minority.
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Re: FP60 update Federal Court of Appeals

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It's just so much cleaner to say here's the law, follow it. That's actually the entire basis of society, isn't it. A codified set of rules and expectations for personal and corporate behaviour? How can you consider things that are not part of the law, just because somebody complained about it. Imagine!
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Dockjock wrote:How can you consider things that are not part of the law, just because somebody complained about it.
You are either miscomprehending the exemption provision or misstating it, or both, although I do give you credit for discussing the issue rationally rather than emotionally or dogmatically.

The conditional exemption to mandatory retirement was in the law for decades before the complaints were raised by these pilots. Contrary to your assumption, it was part of the law. Mandatory retirement was conditional, not absolute. If mandatory retirement wasn’t meant to be conditional upon the normal age of retirement, there would have been an absolute exemption in the statute instead of a conditional exemption.

Let me give you another example of a more obvious conditional legal provision. If you pass your flight test, your licence is validated. If you don’t, it isn’t.

Does Air Canada not take that condition seriously? Of course it does. So why, when it comes to ending pilots’ careers, putting fully competent, qualified, licensed pilots on the street, should they not take that conditional provision seriously?

Remember that Air Canada kept terminating the employment of pilots right up until December, 2012, when the repeal of the exemption came into effect, after six years of litigation before the tribunal and the courts. There was no issue with them about whether the exemption was part of the law. The only issue was whether the exemption was triggered. Their argument to this day that it was not triggered verges on the absurd, given the facts, I would suggest. That is why the federal court was having nothing to do with it, and overturned the tribunal’s decision on that point.
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There are 200ish pilots with pending complaints that that wouldn't be there had ACPA made the smart decision when the first one was filed. Each successive month after that more were added to the list. If the Federal government hadn't dragged themselves into the 21st century when they did there would be even more, so quite literally the government inadvertently saved us from further harming ourselves.

The process is finally approaching the end game, and when the final judgement comes down people will conveniently forget that this is the path ACPA and the pilots who supported them chose - not the complainants.
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Sure it was conditional, but was it punitive. My kids often complain about my seemingly arbitrary rules. No candy before noon, no dessert before bed. BUT CONNOR GETS TO...ok then go live with CONNOR. Contrary to yours and others' extremely simplistic interpretation of what a democratic majority vote consists of, the majority of AC pilots were quite happy with the arrangement. I wouldn't call that tyranny, I'd call it "win some lose some." AC pilots have been compensated near the top of the industry for decades, and the tradeoff was early (-er) retirement than a few other companies, some of which have 10 aircraft, none bigger than 30 seats. Any normal (that word again?) person could see that the tradeoff was more than fair. The law changed, the contract and pension changed with it. Now, most pilots are OK with it as well. Again, "win some lose some." Like I said, the sooner your group is out of the picture never to return, the better. I'm embarrassed for you.
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Rockie wrote: The process is finally approaching the end game, and when the final judgement comes down people will conveniently forget that this is the path ACPA and the pilots who supported them chose - not the complainants.
Yep.. when I'm 62 making the same amount of money I should have been making at 57 due to a later start with the company because of some selfish old pilots I'll make sure to remember you. THANK YOU! :finga:
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Wacko wrote:Yep.. when I'm 62 making the same amount of money I should have been making at 57 due to a later start with the company because of some selfish old pilots I'll make sure to remember you. THANK YOU!
How far will you go blaming others for not achieving the career advancement you expect?

The government for the economy that stalled effecting airlines?
The bankers for the financial meltdown in 2008?
Osama Bin Laden?
Air Canada for increasing their load factor thus reducing the number of pilots needed?
Everybody flying on WestJet, Sunwing etc?
SkyRegional, Jazz, etc for taking your rightful job?
Air Canada again for getting 1 787 instead of 2 737's?
Air Canada again for not hiring you sooner?
The union for their inability to change the definition of discrimination in this country?
Every company you ever worked at for not giving you the experience you needed sooner?
Your parents for not supporting you enough?

At what stage do you accept some responsibility, like maybe for your own career choices? You already gained seniority and perhaps got your job to begin with while the union did your bidding by stalling the process as long as they did but now you want even more. By the way, you can thank society for ending arbitrary and discriminatory age based retirement adding an additional five years to your career. Something you will probably appreciate when you turn 60 if you can still remember how things used to be and how it changed. Something I doubt.
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Rockie wrote: How far will you go blaming others for not achieving the career advancement you expect?
YOU signed on the dotted line 25+? years ago knowing full well what the retirement age is. Now that it doesn't work FOR YOU, you ended up changing it to YOUR benefit.

You didn't only effect AC with this. You effected all the 703/704 and even 705 operators by reducing the movement in the industry.

The difference between Sept 11 and what you're doing is that YOU were responsible for this... I'm not comparing you to a terrorist but in effect you would be what equates to the terrorists in that scenario... you are the NEGATIVE for the whole industry for YOUR benefit.

Regardless, you will always think you're in the right... retire in 2 years and not give 2 sh!ts about everyone below you... so again.. THANK YOU for your contribution to the industry... me and every pilot from the rampies to the guys sitting in the pool at AC will remember your great contribution to the industry... on OUR backs.

I'm done... won't be replying to this post again..... it's just amazing how the sh!t rolls down the triangle and the arrogance of the ones on top.
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Wacko wrote:YOU signed on the dotted line 25+? years ago knowing full well what the retirement age is.
I signed on the dotted line much, much less than 25 years ago knowing what a whole bunch of things were including pay, duty times, benefits, scheduling rules etc. You did too but things change, and I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that many of those changes you agree with despite "signing on the dotted line". Save the hypocrisy.
Wacko wrote:Now that it doesn't work FOR YOU, you ended up changing it to YOUR benefit.
I didn't change it the government did although I wholeheartedly agree with the change. I didn't even do any work to make it change - I just knew from the start the change was inevitable and wanted my union to take action to mitigate the changes for people like you and me. Instead they chose to do the opposite. Talk to them about your problems.
Wacko wrote:The difference between Sept 11 and what you're doing is that YOU were responsible for this
Wrong again.
Wacko wrote:I'm done... won't be replying to this post again..... it's just amazing how the sh!t rolls down the triangle and the arrogance of the ones on top.
Wrong again, I'm down near the bottom like you. Outrage is so much more effective if it's based on fact Wacko...
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Understated,

I'm on the road at the moment. Go back a couple of pages and look for an attachment called demo.xlsx. It is a simulation of the stagnation you describe and shows the variable outcomes versus when the delay takes place.

The whole point of this was to show that their are different views of financial harm. A narrow view whereby one compares the litigants to what they could have made if mandatory retirement was abolished when they were smack on 59. Any earlier the loss is less. Any later the loss is less.

Or a wider view whereby the litigants are compared to the entire group over the duration of adjustment time frame.

The view points paint very different pictures.

Looks like this thread is degenerating once again and I think I have had enough.

Merry Christmas everyone.

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Rockie et al
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Are you seriously still talking about this?

The law changed, the new law was not followed. Just like taxes, if you challenge a tax dispute and lose you owe BACK TAXES plus penalties.

The law was challenged and lost. Open and shut.
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43S/172E wrote:Rockie et al
That's actually pretty funny. We'll see if you still feel the same a little over a month from now.
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MackTheKnife wrote:

And there in lies the fallacies with Fanblades theories IMO.

They are based on every pilot have a constant linear career when the reality is anything but. With over 3000 pilots having almost as many different reasons for bidding equipment types, which are then reviewed and changed nearly every 6 months, it is literally impossible to project anyones career earnings.



MTK
LOL, I'm willing to bet that that 777 Capt salary will be used as a benchmark for damages though.

Fanblade, your math is pretty easy to understand and let's face it, we don't know who Rockie really is. He claims to be a guy that is gonna get burned with the rest of us retched lot but who is he really ?
Human nature tells me that no one would post so frequently and vehemently in favor of the side that is trying to screw him over. That to me explains why he is trying to wear you down and muddy the facts. I wouldn't waste your time trying to educated him or any of the other prophets of doom here.
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Ah_yeah wrote:Fanblade, your math is pretty easy to understand and let's face it, we don't know who Rockie really is. He claims to be a guy that is gonna get burned with the rest of us retched lot but who is he really ? Human nature tells me that no one would post so frequently and vehemently in favor of the side that is trying to screw him over. That to me explains why he is trying to wear you down and muddy the facts. I wouldn't waste your time trying to educated him or any of the other prophets of doom here.
Not correct. You don't know who Rockie is, but I do. We met once, when I was still an active line pilot, and we have corresponded a few times since then. He is not a member of the Coalition, so he is not privy to the correspondence that goes out to our members, but he is who he says he, a fairly junior line pilot, with a mind of his own.

And for the record, nobody (in the Coalition) is trying to "screw you over." Those types of comments are unhelpful to the discussion thread, and reflect more about your own unwillingness or inability to comprehend the significance of the legal issues to be decided than they do about the points raised in discussion here.
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