Ryanair loses in Norwegian court

long range shooter

Irish low-fare airline Ryanair was handed a surprise defeat Wednesday by an appeals court in Norway, which ruled that a labour conflict with a former flight attendant must be tried in a Norwegian court, not in Ireland. Ryanair called the ruling “bizarre” and vowed an immediate appeal.:eek:

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2013/08/21/ryanair-loses-in-norwegian-court/

humanji

Do you have an opinion on this?

hansfrei

Desperate. Some people have some cheek havings laws in foreign countries. Feck sake.

long range shooter

humanji wrote: »

Do you have an opinion on this?

Id rather not;)

gugleguy

These Nordics. Can be bit over - serious.:p

Michael D Not Higgins

I don't know how these contracts work but I remember reading something along the lines of 'we give the same contracts to everyone and we're an Irish company so it's Irish law'. How did they think they'd get away with this. If someone's doing their work from Norway, they should have Norwegian law applied.

The employee complains of conditions when starting but surely these are explained in the contract and they didn't have to take the job if they didn't like the terms.

Larbre34

How do they think they'll get away with anything? For the most part they do, so they might as well carry on being chancers in all aspects of their business, all over Europe

salacious crumb

gugleguy wrote: »

These Nordics. Can be bit over - serious.:p

They're just pretending really :pac:

Michael D Not Higgins

Ryanair spokesman Robin Kiely told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that Cocca’s salary was paid into an Irish bank account and that she spent her working hours on board an Irish-registered aircraft, which by law is defined as Irish territory.

Now this is interesting. I would like to see what other airlines do. Assuming she was paid in Ireland means she paid Irish tax as well?

munchkin_utd

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Now this is interesting. I would like to see what other airlines do. Assuming she was paid in Ireland means she paid Irish tax as well?

yup, they are above board and pay irish income taxes.

in Norway though this is more than just about ryanair.
The State airline SAS is now suffering to the hands of Ryanair and Norwegan.

And more importantly, Norwegan have only recently launched a long distance sister airline which has all its employment contracts abroad just like Ryanair. The government of Norway is very unhappy with this.
So at the end of it, its probably more politically correct for the Norwegan government to attack an irish airline with irish registered staff than a Norwegan airline (called "Norwegan"!) with foreign registered staff.

long range shooter

munchkin_utd wrote: »

yup, they are above board and pay irish income taxes.

in Norway though this is more than just about ryanair.
The State airline SAS is now suffering to the hands of Ryanair and Norwegan.

And more importantly, Norwegan have only recently launched a long distance sister airline which has all its employment contracts abroad just like Ryanair. The government of Norway is very unhappy with this.
So at the end of it, its probably more politically correct for the Norwegan government to attack an irish airline with irish registered staff than a Norwegan airline (called "Norwegan"!) with foreign registered staff.

Does this apply for France as well?Thought air france was doing quite well.

http://lajeunepolitique.com/2013/05/31/ryanair-fined-225000-euros-loses-four-aircrafts-for-violating-french-labor-laws/

munchkin_utd

long range shooter wrote: »

Does this apply for France as well?Thought air france was doing quite well.

http://lajeunepolitique.com/2013/05/31/ryanair-fined-225000-euros-loses-four-aircrafts-for-violating-french-labor-laws/

who knows, that verdict is still not made and its just a request by the prosecutor that the company be fined.
No wrongdoing has yet been found.

long range shooter

munchkin_utd wrote: »

who knows, that verdict is still not made and its just a request by the prosecutor that the company be fined.
No wrongdoing has yet been found.

No,but still in court.,and they lost in Norway.
The hole problem with Ryanair,is that they think they can fly all over Europe with Irish contracts,and think that their emplyoees dont have any rights:eek:
They try to avoid pension plans and union rights,because its going to cost them money.
It might work in Ireland,but obviously not every other country in Europe,in this case Norway and France,who does have rights for their employees.

Fighting Irish

humanji wrote: »

Do you have an opinion on this?

such a **** rule:rolleyes: