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Dzisiejsza prasa irlandzka przyniosła wieści o planach Michaela O’Leary’ego dotyczących rejestracji samolotów Ryanair na Łotwie - AOC (Airline Operators Certificate ) wystawione przez odpowiedni urząd w Rydze. Zapewniłoby to możliwość stosowania innych regulacji prawnych z zakresu prawa pracy dla grupy pilotów i personelu pokładowego. Można spekulować, że O'Leary przygotowuje się do skasowanie solidnej premii za "cost cutting" przed swoim odejściem.

Dlaczego nie w Polsce? - bo u nas w kraju o pilotów trudno!. W należącym do Unii kraju może MOL zarejestrować swoją irlandzką linię, a jednocześnie ma możliwość pozyskiwania pilotów z olbrzymiego zasobu krajów byłego Związku Radzieckiego.

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Ryanair looks at Latvian licence in bid to cut costs

RYANAIR is considering transferring its aviation certificate from Ireland to Latvia in a move which experts say could reduce the ability of the company's Irish pilots and cabin crew to claim the protection of Irish employment law.

Ryanair's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, has confirmed that the airline is considering moving its licence, known as an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC); but said this would be a simple cost-reduction measure and would not impinge on the employment rights of its Irish staff.

"We are not looking at a Latvian AOC from that point of view. Employment legislation in Ireland is aimed at multinationals and there's no way we can just scuttle off to Latvia to undermine it," he said.

"If that were possible, I'm fairly sure that everyone (multinational) would be doing it."

According to Mr O'Leary, Ryanair is considering taking advantage of the fact that the Latvian authorities apply lower certification charges than those in Ireland.

Expert

"I don't think that having a Latvian AOC would affect the rights of a single pilot based here," Mr O'Leary said.

Jim Trueick, a partner at the law firm O'Donnell Sweeney and one of the foremost experts in Irish employment law, disagreed.

He said: "The more Ryanair severs its connection to Ireland the easier it is to sustain an argument that the Irish courts do not have jurisdiction in matters of employment law. The key issue here is unfair dismissal legislation, but a slew of employment law follows on from that. Under the Unfair Dismissals Act, Irish citizens who do not normally perform their duties in the State are not covered."

Mr O'Leary dismissed Mr Trueick's opinion as "rubbish" and said that Irish pilots and cabin crew would continue to enjoy the protection of Irish employment legislation partly because they would continue to be resident in Ireland.

This argument was challenged by Mr Trueick. He said: "Somebody flying an aircraft that only lands and takes off from here occasionally is not necessarily covered (by employment legislation), even if they live here."

He added that if Ryanair were to move its AOC to Latvia it could then arrange its affairs in such as way as to ensure its Irish pilots and cabin crew were not covered under Irish legislation.

Headquarters

Mr O'Leary said he had no intention of making any changes which would diminish the rights of Irish pilots and cabin crew. "We will continue to have our headquarters here," he said. "The pilots will continue to be based here. They will continue to pay tax here and they will continued to be covered by Irish law."

Ryanair has had a tumultuous relationship with its Irish pilots.

Last month, it secured a Supreme Court injunction to prevent the Labour Court investigating complaints by a number of Ryanair's Irish pilots pending the outcome of an appeal by the airline to a recent High Court finding.

Ryanair is challenging a High Court finding that the Labour Court is correct in determining that a trade dispute exists at the airline under the Industrial Relations Act, 2001. It also determined Ryanair does not bargain collectively with staff and does not have an internal dispute resolution procedure.

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O'Leary denies Latvian re-registering report
17/12/2005 - 11:23:24 AM

Ryanair has slammed a report in today's Irish Independent that the airline is considering transferring its aviation certificate from Ireland to Latvia, thereby possibly reducing the ability of the company's Irish pilots and cabin crew to claim protection under Irish employment law.

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said today: "There is no truth in the speculative claims, which appeared in this morning's Irish Independent. Ryanair has held discussions with a number of other EU aviation authorities, solely with a view to lowering the high aircraft licensing costs here in Ireland.

"Any such initiative if implemented would have no impact whatsoever on either our aircraft or our highly paid employees who are based here in Ireland.

"It is a pity that newspapers sometimes run these entirely untrue stories on the basis of entirely manufactured speculation by uninformed local lawyers, when the airline has confirmed on the record, that there is no truth whatsoever to these invented claims".

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Komentarz:

And so FR's race to the bottom continues. Altough it is probably true that MOL can lever a cheap deal out of the Latvian CAA to register his approx 130 a/c's & get an AOC from them this is not the full story. The more ties that are severed with Ireland the harder it is for irish/european employees to enforce irish laws and T&C on the company. So in approx 18 months or so MOL will be able to fire all his "Expensive" employees & replace them with Eastern Europeans who are ready willing and able to work for 50% less (Pilots & CC). This will be MOL's final big "Cost Reduction" strategy before he leaves FR in 2 years time with a Healthy Bonus for more Cost cutting. The next step after reregistring the A/C's & AOC is probably to move the Ryanair HQ to Lichenstein which is a very Tax freindly state.

Airliner

Czyzby to zapowiedz bazy technicznej w Rydze?
Rzeszow juz przepadl?

Atco

@ researcher: sugerujesz, że w krajach bałtyckich (razem jakieś 7 mln ludzi) jest takie mrowie pilotów?

slepowron

Atco

"Dlaczego nie w Polsce? - bo u nas w kraju o pilotów trudno!. W należącym do Unii kraju może MOL zarejestrować swoją irlandzką linię, a jednocześnie ma możliwość pozyskiwania pilotów z olbrzymiego zasobu krajów byłego Związku Radzieckiego."

slepowron

obecnie nia ma trudnosci z pilotami - jest ich nadmiar. Taka Delta zwolnila w ostatnich 4 latach 20% swoich pilotow. Jest kupa pilotow zdolnych do latania i nie trzeba ich szkolic na 737 - maja wszystkie uprawnienia gotowe.

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Atco

Nie sądzę, żeby zatrudnianie pracowników spoza UE było szczególnie proste, zwłaszcza z krajów niestowarzyszonych.

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Atco

Ale, jako się już rzekło, w krajach bałtyckich mieszka wszystkiego 7 mln ludzi. Współczynnik "ulotniczenia" jest przy tym z pewnością niższy niż starej UE. To bardzo mały rynek i moim zdaniem nie pasuje do niego zdanie "możliwość pozyskiwania pilotów z olbrzymiego zasobu krajów byłego Związku Radzieckiego."

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Changi · Dołączył: 18 Gru 2005 Posty: 54 Przeczytał: 0 tematów

Hmmm, teza o tym, że piloci z krajów bylego ZSRR są gorzej przygotowani jest ...hmmm...mocno kontrowersyjna. Dosyć duża ich ilośc trafila w latach 90-tych do Azji i tam latają raczej an sprzęcie zachodnim. Mialem okazję rozmawiac z polskim pilotem pracujacym w Vietnam Airlines i chwalil sobie rosyjskich kolegów, tak samo zreszta Wietnamczycy.
Mysle,ze przypadki niedostosowania się do standardów światowych zdarzaja sie,ale zeby zaraz tak powazną teze wysnuwać Wink

pzdr.

Atco

Nikt nic takiego nie napisał.

slepowron

wr50m2

Zastanawiam się, dlaczego ten wątek zdryfował na kwestię wschodnich pilotów i ich naboru?

Przecież - jak napisła slepowron - chodzi tylko i wyłącznie o redukcję kosztów pracy. A te w Starej Unii są kolosalne, w porównaniu z biednymi krajami UE.