Czech pilots demand payment for overtime!
(BRUXELLES2) More than 40 Czech pilots have decided to file a complaint against the army for wages they believe are unpaid. About twenty complaints have already been registered at the Court of Ostrava. And twenty more are in progress. According to Czech television which revealed this information, the total amount of unpaid wages would amount to some tens of millions of crowns (about 400 euros). These pilots say they were paid for only 000 hours during reconnaissance missions and abroad, while they were on duty for 12 hours. The spokesperson for the Chief of Staff of the Czech army believes, for his part, that all salaries have been paid correctly and the Ministry of Defense has said that it does not have enough information on the subject. It is undoubtedly an avatar of the payment of on-call hours - with the famous case law of the European Court of Justice which requires payment for on-call hours, even inactive, spent at work...
(NGV)
