Thursday 15 September 2011

RYANAIR BROOKFIELD.....''GUILTY''...............PROFIT BEFORE SAFETY...

AIRLINES MUST END SELF-EMPLOYMENT OF PILOTS

 
In an attempt to off-load risk a growing number of employers are unfairly forcing pilots to register themselves as self-employed. This should be a concern to every passenger and every taxpayer yet the authorities seem unwilling to intervene, according to the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA).

BALPA General Secretary, Jim McAuslan, said, ‘Like many trade unions we are concerned about workers who to all intents and purposes are employees but are being forced to register as self-employed. This gets the company out of having to provide holiday pay, redundancy cover, sick pay and leaves individuals fearing that they could be laid off at any moment.’

These individuals are essentially employees and the courts are slowing waking up to this. In the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher case the court ruled that the presence of a substitution clause did not in fact prove that there was not a “contract of employment” and many other considerations needed to be taken into account. Previously a substitution clause would require the self-employed person to supply someone else if they could not undertake the day’s work, but this was not what happened in reality.

BALPA will be encouraging fellow trade unions at the TUC Congress in London to use this judgment to launch a major attack on the abuse by employers of self-employment status.

Jim McAuslan went on: ‘BALPA’s concerns go much wider than employment status, however. We believe the practise goes against Civil Aviation Authority regulations which state that the employment of “freelance” flight crews may only be allowed in “exceptional circumstances”. In some airlines the exception is fast-becoming the norm and this needs to be addressed. BALPA will be pressing for this matter to be looked at by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which sets world-wide standards for aviation safety.

‘As well as a safety concern the use of bogus self-employed status is leading to a loss to the Exchequer. This is aggravated when airlines insist that people are not only self-employed but have to register off-shore to secure employment. BALPA knows of many individuals who have had to go along with this façade because they are desperate for work and are given no real choice.

‘This approach is bad for jobs, bad for safety and bad for the country and the Government should act now.’

  

John Said,
Thank you BALPA.......

RYANAIR PILOTS MUST INFORM CHIRP OF SAFETY ISSUES BROKEN BY RYANAIR...EUROPE'S LAGEST EXPLOITORS OF CREW.




Ryanair Cabin Crew and Pilots can contact CHIRP for Aviation = Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme here ....  http://www.chirp.co.uk/index.asp 

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Stop the Exploitation of so many young people wishing to become Cabin Crew at Ryanair.Recruitment for Profit must stop..
Recruitment and  training (at a 3000 Euro fee) to be TERMINATION must stop and the Government must act NOW.Termination levels at RYANAIR  and AIB training loans need to be investigated before more young lives are damaged.
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Saturday 10 September 2011

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MICHAEL O'LEARY ABUSING SO MANY...........SPEAKING ABOUT RYANAIR EXPLOITERS ...


I'D SELL off the ESB, Aer Lingus and RTE to turn the economy around, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary told the Herald today.
The airline chief would also bring everyone into the tax net -- including those on the dole, who he would tax at 10pc.
Mr O'Leary also says the number of TDs should be slashed to 58, the Senate abolished and the "public sector pension scams" brought to an end.
However, he admits he doesn't get everything right, being in negative equity on his Raglan Road, Dublin 4 home he bought at "the top of the bloody cycle".
The outspoken chief executive dismissed Aer Lingus as an "irrelevancy" and described "public sector broadcasting" as "horse sh**"
"In a European context there are four airlines that matter, Lufthansa, Air France, BA/Iberia and Ryanair," he tells the Herald in an exclusive interview.
Ireland has "huge tourism potential" but it is not being exploited, he added.
"Everything has come down but access capacity has been destroyed by the Department of Transport, the DAA and the travel tax," he said.
Mr O'Leary considers much of the public sector to be "rotten to the core".
He said the country's former top civil servant Dermot McCarthy should have been sacked for "10 years of abject failure" instead of receiving a €600,000 retirement payment.
In an echo of Fine Gael's pre-election five-point plan, Mr O'Leary outlined his own remedies for the ailing Irish economy.
He stormed: "I would slash public spending by €20bn in three years.
"There are 1,000 quangos that cost about €6bn a year, I would close every single one of them next Tuesday, starting with FAS, which costs €1bn a year.
"Unemployment would rise, but most of them are useless anyway, but they all would have to get jobs somewhere else."
http://www.herald.ie/news/put-10pc-tax-on-dole-and-sell-off-esb-oleary-2872097.html    - Eoghan Corry, EXCLUSIVE  
 

John Said,
As you can see O'Leary wording....SCAMS and EXPLOITED are the two main things inside Ryanair.
O'Leary has no Respect or  Dignity for  Ryanair Crew,Unemployed he said are useless, terminated Ryanair cabin crew are Unemployed as a direct result of Michael O'Leary and David Bonderman scammers.......Do not understand why the Herald interview a abuser of so many Young People all over Europe,they need to talk to RyanairDontCare Campaign....

Friday 9 September 2011

BROOKFIELD RYANAIR CONTRACT.....DECLAN DOONEY HAS FULL POCKETS....CORRUPT OR NOT ???? SAFETY IS NOT PRIORITY AT RYANAIR ''PROFIT IS''


RYANAIR PILOT SAID:

There are many implications relating to the Brookfied Aviation contractors associated with Ryanair, some of which may not be obvious to the general public and the fare paying customers of Ryanair.
The whole reason that Brookfied Aviation was set up was so that Ryanair could shy away from it’s social welfare contributions as stated above and so that the pilots would have no employment rights. The manager of Brookfield Aviation is the ex-head of Ryanair HR, Declan Dooney. Mr. Dooney left Ryanair to set up the desired pilot contract workforce for Ryanair and this has grown to a massive scale due to the percentage of contractor pilots currently in Ryanair, about 65%. Various government bodies around Europe (excluding the UK) have questioned the legality of this practice and this is why the pilots are now forced to set up limited companies in Dublin with one of three Brookfield selected accountants (who take a mandatory 3% from their salaries) so that they can pay their taxes in Ireland, this is how they pacified the Irish Government. The limited company idea is only a temporary reprieve for them because Brookfield is only enforcing the new terms onto new pilots and allowing the existing contractors to remain on any scheme that they wish, even when their contracts are being renewed. There are hundreds of Brookfield pilots either not paying tax at all or paying through offshore dubious schemes in the IOM, Jersey, etc. In many cases these are people who live and work in the UK, so the UK government is missing out on a lot of tax and appears to be less interested than many other European counties, despite the fact that we are supposed to be cracking down on all illegal tax schemes.
So, the financial effect is the more obvious but there are more important effects to. The pilots are paid by the flying hour and their volume of work is totally dependant on the rostering department of Ryanair giving them some work. Often pilots are not being paid much money, especially in the winter months. Due to inconsistent income and pilots who are running into financial difficulties, often unable to pay their mortgages etc. result = PILOT STRESS.
The pilots are NOT allowed to seek work elsewhere because when they are not rostered for work they are on standby for the company to use them at a moments notice if they wish, this is every airline’s operational requirement but all other airlines pay a salary for that privilege. Some pilots in these winter months are flying two may be three days per month which means that they are earning less than £1000 per month, result = PILOT STRESS.
There is no sick pay, so human nature is to go to work when one is not really up to it, I’ve seen people in work very ill indeed. Despite the fact that the pilots are not employed by Ryanair they have to provide an official doctor’s sick note for any sickness whatsoever.
Brookfield pilots are often rostered to work from another European base at very short notice, they have to pay all associated travel and hotel costs themselves upfront even if they haven’t been earning any money for several months and therefore can’t afford to do so, result = PILOT STRESS. When rostered to fly from another base the days spent getting to and from that base are known in the industry as “duty days” There are certain legal flight time limitations in place to prevent pilots being fatigued and therefore not safe to fly, one of those limitations is the number consecutive duty days in a certain period and another is the length of each duty day. Ryanair refuses to accept that the days spent travelling are in fact duty days, but it clearly states in the official legal documentation that any days spent travelling at the behest of the company are “duty days” This can easily be conformed with the Civil Aviation Authority. result = PILOT STRESS and FLIGHT SAFETY ISSUE.
You may be wondering why I and many others put up with it, its because there is nothing else available in the UK which is why many UK pilots are now seeking employment in the Middle and Far East.
All in all I have used the phrases PILOT STRESS and FLIGHT SAFETY ISSUE where appropriate but PILOT STRESS is in itself a FLIGHT SAFETY ISSUE so the hidden effect of the illegal contractor pilots and dictatorship attitude is FLIGHT SAFETY and should be addressed by the Civil Aviation Authority and The Irish Aviation Authority before it’s too late, its unsafe! The Irish Aviation Authority appears to be entirely disinterested in the wrong doings of Ryanair due to its very close relationship with Mr O’Leary and his fellow directors.
If any journalist were to challenge Ryanair on these issues I’m sure that they would refuse to comment because this is all based on fact and they couldn’t possibly justify any of it.

John said,
This is so wrong............IAA need to do their job and stop turning a blind eye.........Ryanair Crew need help ''NOW''.................

RYANAIR SHAREHOLDERS WARNED...CORONERS REPORT INTO RYANAIR RIP PILOT

The death of a real important pilot at Ryanair a few months ago must never be forgotten.
The coroners report will not turn a blind eye to exploitation of crew at Ryanair and all shareholders need to know the truth.......David Bonderman and Michael O'Leary are not only guilty of cheating shareholders with their Isle of Man bank account but Guilty of contributing in the  death of one of their pilots.

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Sunday 4 September 2011

STEPHEN McNAMARA RYANAIR'S PUPPET..... mcnamara@ryanair.com

 

OFT statement on its investigation of Ryanair’s minority shareholding in Aer Lingus

airplane 112/10    29 October 2010
The OFT has today started a merger investigation into Ryanair Holdings plc's (Ryanair's) acquisition of a minority shareholding in Aer Lingus Group plc (Aer Lingus). Ryanair currently owns 29.82 per cent of Aer Lingus.
The OFT's investigation will have regard to two main questions:
(i) whether the OFT has jurisdiction under the Enterprise Act 2002 to review the acquisition as a relevant merger situation. This will include considering whether Ryanair has the ability to exercise material influence over the commercial policy of Aer Lingus (see Note 4)  as well as whether the OFT is within the statutory time period available to it to investigate the acquisition and, if need be, refer it to the Competition Commission (see Note 5) and
(ii) if so, whether the acquisition raises competition issues that give rise to a duty to refer the acquisition to the Competition Commission under the 'substantial lessening of competition' test set out in the Enterprise Act 2002.
After initially acquiring a minority stake in Aer Lingus in 2006, Ryanair mounted a public bid for the entire shareholding in Aer Lingus in October 2006. The European Commission investigated the bid and decided to prohibit it in June 2007.
Aer Lingus subsequently appealed against the European Commission's decision not to order Ryanair to divest its existing minority stake in Aer Lingus. In July 2010, the European General Court ruled that the European Commission did not have the ability to require divestment of minority shareholdings that do not confer 'decisive influence' for the purposes of the EC Merger Regulation. Separately, Ryanair also appealed, unsuccessfully, to the General Court on the grounds that the European Commission should not have prohibited its public bid for the entire shareholding in Aer Lingus.
Given the termination of the European Commission investigation and related litigation, the OFT is now considering the acquisition.
The OFT has written to Ryanair seeking information and its views on the acquisition. In line with its normal practice, the OFT has today invited comments from third parties on the acquisition, to be submitted by 12 November.
NOTES  
  1. Ryanair Holdings plc currently owns 29.82 per cent of Aer Lingus Group plc. Ryanair initially acquired a stake in Aer Lingus in late 2006. It mounted a public bid for the entire shareholding in Aer Lingus in October 2006. The European Commission investigated the public bid and decided to prohibit it in June 2007. The General Court ruled in July 2010 that the European Commission does not have the ability to examine or require divestment of minority shareholdings that do not confer 'decisive influence' for the purposes of the EC Merger Regulation - see Note 4.
  2. The reference test - the OFT has a duty to make a reference to the Competition Commission if it believes that it is or may be the case that a relevant merger situation has been created and the creation of that situation has resulted, or may be expected to result, in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services.
  3. Under the Enterprise Act 2002 a relevant merger situation is created if two or more enterprises have ceased to be distinct enterprises; and the value of the turnover in the United Kingdom of the enterprise being taken over exceeds £70 million; or as a result of the transaction, in relation to the supply of goods or services of any description, a 25 per cent share of supply in the UK (or a substantial part thereof) is created or enhanced.
  4. Under the Enterprise Act 2002 the OFT may treat as a relevant merger situation a minority shareholding where that shareholding gives its owner the ability materially to influence the behaviour and policy of the target company including the target company's strategic direction and commercial objectives. As stated in the OFT's Mergers - jurisdictional and procedural guidance (OFT527, paragraph 3.15) this is a lower level of control than the 'decisive influence' test used by the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation.
  5. Under the Enterprise Act 2002 the OFT is able to refer to the Competition Commission completed relevant mergers within four months of the merger's completion or from the time material facts about the merger were made public. However, the Enterprise Act 2002 provides that the duty to refer applies outside this four month timetable when the reference could not have been made earlier because of anything done under or in accordance with the EC Merger Regulation.
Ryanair Holdings PLC - RYANAIR RESPONDS TO THE OFT's "MERGER UPDATE"
Thursday 1 September 2011

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said: mcnamara@ryanair.com  ....
"We are surprised that the OFT continues to waste time and resources on a failed merger offer between two non UK companies, some five years after the offer was withdrawn, and some four years after the EU Commission prohibited the original offer but confirmed that Ryanair had neither de jure nor de facto control over Aer Lingus.
This OFT investigation sets a damaging precedent for future UK mergers, as it appears that the OFT now intends to second guess and become involved in mergers up to 9 years after the transaction, only once all EU appeals have been completed. We believe that this investigation is out of time and we trust that the Court of Appeal will share our view and put an end to this unnecessary investigation."

John said,
Not surprised
McNamara '' the puppet'' again trying to move away from the true issues,but thats Ryanair all over....Time for recruitment at EUROPE'S GREATEST TRAINING ROBBERS ''RYANAIR'' to be looked at also....

Thursday 1 September 2011

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