Suvarnabhumi Airport: Change in contracts leaves 2,000 security staff with serious problems

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Hundreds of security personnel are complaining at Bangkok's main airport after a contract ended at midnight last night. 

 

The contract that the airports' authority had with ASM expired. The AoT are now arranging security themselves. 

 

The "eleventh hour" decision as one employee put it, will mean salary cuts and difficulties especially for the over 50s who have been told to resign from the old company and start afresh. 

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Sompong Mankhong, 53, didn't know whether he would be rehired especially as his education finished at the end of primary school. 

 

He said staff face pay cuts or having no jobs at all and he blamed the AoT for giving no information in advance of the decision to 2,000 staff at the airport. 

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

 

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That is outrageous! Surely there are employment laws to guard against this high-handed approach!  What negotiations were ASM having with AOT to renew contract, or were they just assuming it would be renewed!  Surely, AOT would have to give ASM some notice of their intentions not to renew the contract! As usual, the story does no digging into the cause of the problem!

Or, a good opportunity to get rid of the old company/people and award someone else this lucrative gig... known to happens before...

Snakes will do snakey stuff. And nobody will hold them responsible because there is no justice system 

Slowly it becomes public what this SPAMdemic is really about !

... making more people poor !

 

The rich win because the poor agree !!!

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

Or, a good opportunity to get rid of the old company/people and award someone else this lucrative gig... known to happens before...

Probably to get rid of those on 20,000 baht and employ someone at 10,000 baht.

 

Factories doing the same in Chonburi. Leave now we will give you a bonus. 50 years and up. 

3 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

That is outrageous! Surely there are employment laws to guard against this high-handed approach!  What negotiations were ASM having with AOT to renew contract, or were they just assuming it would be renewed!  Surely, AOT would have to give ASM some notice of their intentions not to renew the contract! As usual, the story does no digging into the cause of the problem!

Actually AOT announced this move about 8 or 10 months ago, and said they were going to manage security themselves because of many complaints and they were dissatisfied with outside companies who never took action to fix complaints.

 

Within the last few months the whole matter and the fact the old contract would soon end has been mentioned again in the news. 

 

Have you ever walked past the door where airport staff go from check-in side to air side and noticed the security staff checking nothing?

If it is a contract that is finished,,, it is finished.

I am sure that if they  are not lazy & well groomed the AOT will employ them

4 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

That is outrageous! Surely there are employment laws to guard against this high-handed approach!  What negotiations were ASM having with AOT to renew contract, or were they just assuming it would be renewed!  Surely, AOT would have to give ASM some notice of their intentions not to renew the contract! As usual, the story does no digging into the cause of the problem!

A contract is a contract, pure and simple, when it expires you're out unless it's re-negotiated.

The term of employment will be specified in the contract.

AOT have the choice to re-new the contract with the same company, talk to a new one or even take on the security themselves.

Don't confuse a contract with permanent employment.

On 5/1/2020 at 12:20 PM, ezzra said:

Or, a good opportunity to get rid of the old company/people and award someone else this lucrative gig... known to happens before...

I love how you have no sensitivity or compassion for what this has done to the workers' lives. An exemplary human being. You should go to work for Donald Trump. 

This, sadly, is nothing new. It happens in the US all the time, has always happened. Unless there is a union to protect workers, workers are at the mercy of greedy cold hearts and amorality of corporations. Even in the US, you see single moms working 3 jobs to support their kids and themselves. 

On 5/1/2020 at 12:37 PM, hobz said:

Snakes will do snakey stuff. And nobody will hold them responsible because there is no justice system 

Like in that fairy tale, right? So sad, I know a girl who worked there 12 years and her salary just went from 20,000 to 12,000

On 5/1/2020 at 12:20 PM, ezzra said:

Or, a good opportunity to get rid of the old company/people and award someone else this lucrative gig... known to happens before...

It's only lucrative for the CEOs. The new company hires the old staff at 1/2 pay, get twice as much work out of them for half as much. This is what actually happened. I have a friend who is one the employees