In 2012, RCI had to engage in a mission critical project surrounding ECCR cabin usage. The overall scope of this project was to re-coupe a $25 million revenue loss as a result of guest cabin use, by Contractors, Crew and Shoreside Personnel. In order to offset this, we had to in turn identify crew cabin inventory that could be utilized for the ECC demand across the fleet.
Therefore, consideration was given to many areas such as new cabin construction, PAR reductions, and 2 stripe entitlement changes:
· The first area of opportunity was to build as many new cabins as possible without impacting guest/crew space.
· The next area of opportunity was Permanent/Travelling PAR reductions for a total of 342 fleetwide.
· The last area of consideration was given to cabin entitlement changes for 2 stripe ranking employees with RCI.
At RCI we also believe in communicating clearly with our crew and in an effort to advise you as quickly as possible of important details that will
affect you, we’ve asked the HR Manager/hiring partner representatives to please communicate the following changes that have been made:
1) Effective March 1st 2013, your single cabin entitlement status will be changed to a shared status.
2) Even though this is an official change in status, a physical cabin change may not take place for you until the cabin conversions have been completed on your respective vessel.
3) You will be notified by the HR Manager in advance of the physical cabin change and we anticipate this process to take a few months with completion by May 31st 2013.
We fully appreciate such a change in cabin entitlement has a personal implication to each of those impacted, the decisions to build additional cabins, reduce permanent and travelling PAR and adjust single entitlements status is purely a business decision and necessary in order to meet our 2013 business challenges.
To assist with this we have developed an FAQ document which we hope will help answer some of your questions. Please also feel free to reach out to
your respective Supervisor/Manager or for answers to any questions you while on vacation, you may direct your email to the HR Consultant below for
your respective ship. Anton Smith Antonsmith@rccl.com or Al Cofino ACofino@rccl.com.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
General
Q: Will crew with the new shared status maintain their existing privileges?
A: There will be no change to existing ship privileges, with the exception of the “in cabin cruise request”. This can only be accommodated for those crew with single entitlement.
Stripe Entitlement Changes
Q: Will salary and/or contract length be impacted?
A: Salary and contract lengths will remain the same.
