Part time evening/weekend (paid) work aimed at existing RAFAC volunteers would no doubt help clear the work backlog. Maybe we could have bank staff to cover for HQAC 
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There’s a clause in ACP 20 that says volunteers cant do what is normally a paid role. Can’t remember the exact wording, but there something there.
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I meant paid work, not voluntary work 
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Now that’s an idea I could get behind. Sadly it’s all CS so it would be a rediculous long drawn out process!
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Establishment levels in the CFAV are pointless as we don’t employ people, so a review is just going to be another excuse for lots of job justifying meetings drinking lots of tea/coffee and eating biscuits and deciding on something unworkable/impractical. The practical thing is to bin the idea of establishments and let us get on with what we are supposedly here to do.
I can remember first seeing establishments cadets and staff when I did my Staff P2 and looking at our sqn and thinking that doesn’t apply here and in fact didn’t applied anywhere and never getting bothered by them when I became a Sqn Cdr. I will have whatever people want to be as to try and make them do something else will probably result in them sodding off.
The only time I can recall establishments being mentioned is an excuse to block or prevent people doing things, ie we’d be over our establishment if that happened.
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Find myself agreeing with you for possibly the first time ever, but this has also been my experience.
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How many squadron’s number fell during Covid and dropped at least one level on the Establishment Table, yet no action was taken 
How many squadrons fell below the minima prior to covid and were lowered
Proves only there when CoC want/need it to be 
There’s the Civil Service code, however…
…then each office has a violently different atmosphere and work ethic to one another.
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Is that any surprise when the government constantly criticise the CS, yet treat the ministerial code like a teenage boy treats a gym sock?
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You mean they “wa.l.k” all over it…
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Yup, complete bunch of walkers.
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Not related to the matrix per say but promotion in a way.
What is correct - date given in the appointment letter post OASC or the commissioning scroll? OR should they be the same?
I’d have thought they should be the same…
I asked that and apparently it’s the date on the scroll (which should match the gazette) as the commission is only confirmed on completion of OIC and the year probation. Meaning that despite the wording of the appointment letter APO are not commissioned and shouldn’t be saluted. But you don’t genuinely expect consistency or accuracy in letters from this organisation do you?
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Thanks, I’ll have to check the Gazette. It is a bit odd to have the 2 different dates!
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Indeed
You mean the wording that says you are appointed to a commission and will be afforded all courtesies that come with it. What tripe.
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Yup. Just another poorly thought out policy with no consistency. Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things what date is on the commission but it is symptomatic of wider problems
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Not everyone starts as an APO though…
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True, that makes the whole thing even more confusing if you have someone wearing Fg Off braid when technically they are not commissioned.
This can’t be right. For example; I know of some staff commissioned in 2019 per their letter, but only Gazetted in 2021, so if the two year starts there it would be 4 years as pilot officer. I don’t know anyone that has had to wait that long…