Ryanair claims to have reached a deal with Belgian crew
Ryanair claims it has signed Collective Labour Agreements with the Belgian unions to cover all of its directly employed pilots and cabin crew in Belgium.
Belgian Labour Law will apply to all Ryanair pilots and cabin crew in Belgium by the end of January next year, it said.
The no-frills airline also claimed to have signed similar agreements in the past week with pilot unions SEPLA in Spain, SPAC in Portugal and BALPA in the UK, covering all of its directly employed Spanish, Portuguese and British pilots.
However, a similar announcement by Ryanair earlier this month was refuted by BALPA, which said Ryanair had jumped the gun. It said the airline had made the announcement before it had the chance to put the jointly agreed deal to BALPA members.
Ryanair’s chief people officer Eddie Wilson said today: "We are pleased to have signed this latest CLA covering all of our directly employed pilots and cabin crew in Belgium.
"These signed union agreements in Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the UK again demonstrate the considerable progress we’re making in concluding union agreements with our people in our major EU markets.
"We expect that these new agreements will encourage the cabin crew unions in both Spain and Portugal to remove competitor airline employees (who have been blocking progress) and to quickly conclude cabin crew agreements in those two countries, as that’s what our Portuguese and Spanish cabin crew are now demanding."
Linsey McNeill
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