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Do we really believe that multinationals should pay everyone around the world the same amount? That when I used to be a consultant for a big Paris-based company that I should have been paid the exact same amount as a colleague in London or New York? Or should the London flight crews for Air NZ get the same pay as those in Beijing?
It's absurd?
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all the airlines do it

storm in a teacup
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Night Rider said:
all the airlines do it

all COMPANIES do it. I can't think of a single global business that would pay staff the same amount wherever they worked in the world?
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well that's right too but essentially what we have here is two sets of people working alongside each other doing the same work but on vastly different pay scales
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It is utterly ludicrous to expect that people working from different countries get paid the same.

I do think they should reassess the per diem payments - that is an issue which makes perfect sense to pay out relative to local conditions (wherever you happen to land).

We don't hear people complaining about pay equality overseas when they want their Chinese-made Huffer t-shirt.

R
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This is happening in every workplace isnt it? - especially with such high immigration and the Individual Employments Contract or whatever it is.

I mean I know that heaps of the IT geeks in my office doing similar jobs are on lots less than me because when I came here I had a specific skill they were short of and I negotiated a higher pay (that specific skill is now no longer required - but my higher salary stays ) whereas they are immigrants with some generic skills and in general they are prepared to work for lower salaries.
Basically its everyone for themselves these days and the whole world is the labour pool.
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herald said:
"It is disappointing that the comments of one disgruntled former crew member and a publicity-seeking immigration consultant have been given any credibility," said the airline's group general manager international, Ed Sims....

The package of approximately $3160 gross per month (exclusive of social security payments) compared with the average monthly wage of urban Chinese workers of $325.
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"While Shanghai crew have a lower base salary, they only fly an average 72 per cent of the flying hours of an Auckland-based crew member," Mr Sims said.

A Shanghai-based crew member works an average 14 days of a 28 day roster. They average 2.5 return flights Shanghai-Auckland per roster.
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China crew cost $46,000 each: Air NZ

Air New Zealand yesterday defended the pay deal it gives its Shanghai-based flight attendants during an appearance before a parliamentary select committee.

Mr Fyfe said the total employment cost for the Shanghai-based crew was $46,000 each a year, and "we don't perceive that to be a low rate of pay".

That package compared with an equivalent total employment cost for the airline's NZ-based flight attendants of $58,000 a year.

The Chinese crew flew about 75 per cent of the hours that the NZ-based crew did, Mr Fyfe said, and part of the allowance regime was a payment per hour of flying.

"In China we pay the staff directly, but we pay the government a 46 per cent tax effectively for their social benefits and so on."

He said recent Herald reports about the issue had focused on a specific base salary rate which bore "no resemblance" to the total remuneration for those employees.


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