Previously, the airline Babcock handled the ambulance flight in Sweden.
Now the business is instead run by KSA, the Swedish Association of Local Ambulance Aircraft.
But according to the union Swedish pilot association, the transition has not gone right and now threatens to sue.
Employees must be offered services
From the very beginning, KSA had problems with their new plane that could not be landed.
But it is not just the business itself that has had problems.
There are divided opinions as to whether the transition took place in accordance with Swedish labor law.
When an employer takes over a business, a so-called business transfer takes place.
Then employees at the previous company will be offered a job in the new one.
But that has not happened with this change.
- The Swedish Pilot Association's lawyers are currently investigating this, if it is a business transfer and on such an occasion, the employees will be allowed to keep their jobs, says Simon Enochson and continues:
- We believe that this is a transition out of business, then there is a lot of legislation on how it should be handled.
We believe that KSA has not complied, but KSA believes that it is not a transfer of operations and has therefore not applied the existing legislation.
"Court may decide"
- If it turns out that it is a business transfer, then we will sue them and then the court will decide.
Earlier this week, the parties began negotiations and after that, the Swedish Pilot Association will decide whether to sue or not.
- We will see if KSA is willing to come up with a negotiated solution where they take advantage of our members' interests, then maybe it does not need to be decided in court, Simon Enochson concludes.
Do not want to comment before the negotiations are finished
Federal director at KSA, Anders Sylvan does not want to comment on the threat of a lawsuit while the negotiations are underway.
- I can only confirm that we have received a request for negotiations and the negotiations have begun.