Atypical employment in the aviation sector
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Strengthening organisation of trans-national airline pilots in Europe
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Fair aviation Project
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment in the aviation sector
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This is one of the previous research projects done by Ghent University, Social law department: University of Ghent study on Atypical Employment in Aviation (2015).
Y. Jorens, D. Gillis, L. Valcke & J. De Coninck, ‘Atypical Forms of Employment in the Aviation Sector’, European Social Dialogue, European Commission, 2015. Results used and presented before the European Commission, European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee for Civil Aviation. |
An ECA project formally named “Strengthening organisation of Trans-national airline pilots in the EU” was accepted for financing by the EU Commission. The project aims at strengthening the organisation and representation of transnational airline (TNA) pilots and supporting ECA Member Associations (MAs) in this task by offering them effective and handy tools, deepening the knowledge of transnational negotiation and cross-border bargaining tools in the EU (including their limits), and investigating the impact of atypical work on TNAs.
Within the framework of this project, ECA organised two TNA seminars on solutions that fit TNA pilot groups in optimizing the way they work together on their common challenges and coordinate across borders and jurisdictions. The conclusion of the project is this TNA handbook which provides an overview of the current legal and social framework in Europe, describes the current experience of transnational collective bargaining and cross-border negotiation in the EU (in aviation and other sectors) and a toolkit of templates, coordination tools and reference documents. The doctoral student working on the current study was the cooperating partner in this project. |
Under the Fair aviation project (ETF) a report was written on the regulatory framework of the EU and International Aviation, with a special focus on social rights and labour standards and the strengths and loopholes in the EU regulatory framework.
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The context of the general European lockdown in May 2020, due the COVID-19 pandemic presented a new unique set of challenges for the aviation sector. To address the needs of the working field, one needs to know the actual situation for the workers. In this respect we conducted a study, with European cabin and cockpit crew, that aimed to to present a clear overview of the employment landscape in the aviation industry at the time of the general European lockdown and how it is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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