I couldn’t disagree with you more.
Ryanair employs these staff in France, to work from France, and it should comply with French employment law (just as my employer is American, but I work in the UK and they are therefore required to give me UK pay, terms and conditions). The alternative is that everything sinks to the lowest level – businesses would eventually find the country with the least restrictive labour laws, with the lowest payscales, and with the lowest obligations for things like sickness, holidays, pensions etc and then just employ all their staff from that country.
If Ryanair wants its French staff work to Irish rules with Irish conditions, then they need to relocate the staff to Ireland and have them operate out of Ireland but through France on a regular basis, with all of the typical airline implications that involes in terms of hotel night stops, days and hours away from their [Isish] base duty time limitations, days off back at base, etc. Of course, Ryanair want to avoid some of the expenses of doing that, so they permanently base the staff in France – that means that they need to comply with French employment law. I bet those staff pay taxes in France according to French rates, because the tax rules will dictate that anyone in the country for more than a certain number of days each year has to pay French taxes, and the other rules regarding pay, sickness, vacation, pension etc are no different.
What Ryanair is doing is just another stunt, designed not in the interests of the staff but of finding the lowest and cheapest way of doing business whilst ignorring the law. Ryanair are looking for a way to make things cheaper for them, but more expensive or difficult or restrictive for the staff involved, that’s all. France didn’t invent the rules just to shaft Ryanair – the laws are applicable to staff permantently based in France with any airline.
Andy
Andy,
You have hit the nail on the head,
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