Irish Times - Insight into working for Ryanair

Started by muppet, September 28, 2013, 01:59:39 PM

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seafoid


   https://www.ft.com/content/8196a46e-3174-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a

   "Seven European pension schemes overseeing nearly €300bn of assets have pulled their investments in Ryanair due to concerns about high-profile labour disputes involving the budget airline. Denmark's largest pension fund, ATP, and Folksam, the Swedish retirement scheme, are among the large investors that have sold their holdings in Ryanair at a time of growing concern about how the airline pays its staff and interacts with unions. Baillie Gifford, one of the UK's largest asset managers, and Hermes EOS, the influential adviser to institutional investors, have also raised concerns about labour issues with Ryanair in recent months. Michael O'Leary, the outspoken chief executive of Ryanair, described the pension funds that have sold their holdings as "idiots", adding: "We don't pay too much attention to pension funds who have excluded us over labour concerns. They are misinformed. We don't have any labour issues."
"f**k it, just score"- Donaghy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbxG2WwVRjU

imtommygunn


Avondhu star

How many of our staunch left wingers and union leaders enjoy the cheap flights on Ryanair evetyday?
Lee Harvey Oswald , your country needs you

playwiththewind1st

Any word from Mr. O'Leary, about his plans for cancelling lots of flights & inconveniencing lots of people?

Or, is he on holidays [like most of his pilots]?

Maybe he's gone over to a rival Scandinavian outfit [like another pile of his pilots].

He's strangely publicity shy this weather......bit unlike him.

screenexile

Quote from: playwiththewind1st on September 18, 2017, 01:37:44 PM
Any word from Mr. O'Leary, about his plans for cancelling lots of flights & inconveniencing lots of people?

Or, is he on holidays [like most of his pilots]?

Maybe he's gone over to a rival Scandinavian outfit [like another pile of his pilots].

He's strangely publicity shy this weather......bit unlike him.

Doesn't sound right to me something has to be up in there!!!


OgraAnDun

They're hiring 737 ready pilots with a nice 10k signing bonus over the next few months. As mentioned above, rumoured that plenty have moved to Norwegian recently which is where a lot of the problems are coming from.

Orior

1) Any Ryanair employees play gaelic football or hurling?

2) Interesting fact: Ryanair sounds the same backwards
Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

playwiththewind1st

No they are forbidden from doing so in their contracts.

There is nothing interesting about Ryanair, except trying to understand why anyone would try to fly with them.

screenexile

Quote from: playwiththewind1st on September 18, 2017, 07:11:43 PM
No they are forbidden from doing so in their contracts.

There is nothing interesting about Ryanair, except trying to understand why anyone would try to fly with them.

It's not rocket science... they're cheap!

playwiththewind1st

Not much consolation if O'Leary pulls the plug on your flight.

Ach sure it's only 2% of all passengers. You still have a fair chance of getting there & back.

Eamonnca1


Eamonnca1

Quoth the article:

QuoteA copy of a standard Brookfield contract seen by The Irish Times includes a clause where the signing pilot agrees that he or she is not an employee of Ryanair or Brookfield, and will not at any time be deemed to be an employee.

O'Leary could be in a bit of trouble here. In English law it's not very clear cut who's your "employer." A lot depends on a combination of factors including who pays your wages, who do you report to, who controls the method of work, etc.. The court could rule that Ryanair is the employer and pilots are entitled to all the rights that go with it under UK employment law.

Of course if O'Leary wasn't such a full-of-himself gobs***e he'd give the crew decent pay and conditions in the first place, he wouldn't be going to court, and there wouldn't be an Exodus to his Norwegian competitor. Slap it up him.