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China Eastern Airlines pilots accept verdict on contract dispute
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-12 19:35 WUHAN - Ten pilots on Friday said they had accepted a court ruling that they should pay compensation to China Eastern Airlines (CEA) to release them from their employment contracts. The Intermediate People's Court in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, made the ruling at the second hearing of the case on Wednesday, ordering the pilots to pay about 8 million yuan (US$1 million) in total to leave the company, which was 1 million yuan less than the sum demanded at the first hearing in November last year.
He said all of the pilots signed tenure contracts with CEA's Wuhan subsidiary, under which they could be fined if they resigned. Li said he had been working for CEA since 1999, and the oldest of the ten pilots since 1995. Their workloads were "too heavy and involved immense pressure". "The court's judgement helped annul our contracts with CEA. However, we fear the company will not accept the result, and refuse to give back our pilot certificates," he said. Li said CEA demanded a 2.1-million-yuan penalty fee if a pilot left the company. "Some people in the company told us to look for a new employer who could help us pay the full penalty fee, since the compensation ordered by the court was far from enough to cover the company's losses," he said. CEA, China's third-largest carrier, said in April that the pilots' resignations would induce heavy losses for the company, which included its investment in pilot training. The ten pilots were among 13 CEA staff who made a collective resignation in early 2007, which the company immediately rejected. |
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