SAEP demands salary raise before June 30th

LAHORE - President Society of Aircraft Engineers Pakistan (SAEP), Shoukat Jamshed, in a letter to MD PIA has demanded that Executive Committee of the SAEP has decided that prior to the settlement of the working agreement, the core issue of salary ratio between pilots and engineers i.e. 100:55 between average salary of a pilot and average salary of an air craft engineer may be settled down before June 1, 2009 and the remaining parts of the agreement be finalised before June 30, 2009.
As per letter, their demands for salary and better working conditions were long lasting but management was paying no heed towards the issue.
The letter further speaks that minutes-1 of the meeting held on 4th of July, 2008 vide Minutes-I refer HO: HRA & C/102/P&P, in which promise was made to carry out a quality study of the regional airlines regarding the salary ratio of pilots to aircraft engineers and the same was to be completed within 60 days. So far no further progress has been made on this issue. Management in the past also agreed and promised to settle down the issue before March 2008, vide Minutes-I refer HO-HR & A / 111 / HRM, Dated 23 Nov, 2007 and Admin Order No. 15/2007 dated 19th Dec 2007. Moreover, similar understandings were made vide MoUs signed between SAEP and the then management. First MoU was signed between SAEP and management on 24th May 1989; second on 17th October 1996; third on 30th Nov, 2000 and fourth Admin Order No. 05/2001. Referring to Admin Order No. 05/2001, adhoc ratio payment to serving aircraft engineers towards partial maintenance of ratio of 100:55 between the emoluments of pilots and aircraft engineers was made as an acceptance for the subsistence of this ratio. Furthermore, due to the increase in guaranteed flying hours payment (from 50 to 70) of pilots, heavy rise in salary will further widen the gap between existing salary ratio causing momentous strife among the SAEP members.