Ryanair will press ahead with plans to move Polish staff on to self-employed contracts, the airline’s chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs said. Ryanair is already trying to cope with an industrial relations revolt across the region, with pilots and cabin crew staging strikes in several countries over employment conditions. In Poland, a union representing Polish cabin crew has refused to sign the new contracts which the company’s local subsidiary wants to introduce. “It’s the local type of contract, the same as [national Polish carrier] LOT and other airlines.”Many Polish Ryanair staff are currently on contracts provided by the parent company, but are being asked to transfer to the new contracts as Ryanair’s main operation in Poland is handed to Ryanair Sun, a local subsidiary. Analysts have said that the transfer to self-employed contracts gives airlines more flexibility and will save them money.

Source: Irish Examiner October 18, 2018 23:03 UTC