Court approves injunction forcing pilots to end sick-out

Regional carrier, Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) is back in business after the court in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) approved an injunction, forcing the airline’s pilots to end their sick-out.

In a media release today, CAL announced that regular operation is returning to the T&T-based airliner, working in parallel with recovery flights, some operated by charters on behalf of the airline. This is being done to accommodate any remaining displaced passengers as a result of Sunday’s cancellation of several domestic, regional and international flights caused by the pilots sick-out.

Yesterday, the Industrial Court of Trinidad and Tobago granted an ex-parte injunction against the Trinidad and Tobago Airlines Pilots Association, preventing its president, executive members as well as their servants or agents from “taking or continuing to take and/or participating, howsoever, in industrial action within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act…including calling in sick en masse”. 

The court has also ordered that the association direct “forthwith” CAL workers who are its members to “immediately report for duty as rostered and as they are required to do in the normal course of their employment”.