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The spread of the concept of employability, where defined as the individual employee's responsibility for possessing the skills, knowledge, abilities and experience for gaining and maintaining employment, has taken a recent and significant turn in the case of EasyJet, the airline. EasyJet has taken the step to place the cost of what it takes to have employability increasingly on the shoulders of trainee pilots, a great deal of their salary being reduced to repay expenses, so much so that their actual wages are below minimum wage. Similar situations can be found in other sectors, increasingly where high professional qualifications are required. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Bradford. (Ref. 130143)
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