The Union also Boxing for the first time, a collective agreement under German law for flight attendants and flight attendants at the Irish low-cost Airline. However, a fly in the ointment remains from an employee’s point of view.
The cabin crew of Ryanair in Germany can be pleased with the greatly improved working conditions. The Verdi Union, announced the outcome of the negotiations, according to which flight attendants and flight attendants will receive a 600 Euro higher basic monthly salary. Ryanair was initially no opinion. It is regarded as a great success that the Airline has agreed to the first collective agreement under German Social and labour law. The workers had been forced with a series of strikes to take this step.
The Continued Payment Of Wages, Guarantees, Compensation
The collective agreement is retroactive from November 2018 until the end of March 2021. It was agreed that the cabin crew in case of illness, receives more pay. In addition, Ryanair guarantees the employees in the future, a minimum of 600 work hours per year. The low-cost airline pays the basic salary, a large portion of wages is variable, depending on the work – yet there was no guarantee that the employees have been also used really. The performance-based portion of the wages the Verdi Union has negotiated an increase of up to EUR 250 on a monthly basis. In addition, Employees will receive a severance package, if the Airline’s aircraft of the German sites of the net.
A drop of bitterness remains
With the collective agreement, a key demand of the employees met on a works Council you will have to wait, however. The Minister of labour, Hubertus Heil, had ensured with a change in the law in December that Ryanair can’t prohibit the establishment of a workers ‘ representative. Now Ryanair attempts, however, “again, to avoid responsibility”, said Verdi Federal Board member Christine Behle. The Argument of the airline sounds, to have no operation in Germany, and therefore do not fall under the law. Verdi accept this line of reasoning.
Strike the end of Ryanair staff in July 2018 in Brussels
Ryanair has according to the information of 14,000 employees and flies to more than 200 destinations in 37 European and North African countries. The Michael O’leary led company is under pressure since the international employees network, increasingly, and workers ‘ rights to fight for. Due to strikes in the past year in several European countries, the airline had to cancel hundreds of flights. In the current fiscal year, which ends at the end of March, expects Ryanair with the first profit decline in five years.
ehl/rb (dpa, afp, rtr)