Because a sentence from the Supreme Court lands on Ryanair

21 July 20213 years ago babelfish

The joint sections of the Court of Cassation confirmed the provisions of the Brescia Court of Appeal and the Bergamo Court on Ryanair's discriminatory behavior towards workers. All the details

Fabrizio Cuscito, national secretary of Filt CGIL – which represents workers in the transport sector – said that the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair was sentenced to compensate the union with 50 thousand euros, plus legal fees, as compensation for the behavior. towards workers.

WHAT CUSCITO SAID

As reported by the AGI agency, which quotes Cuscito, "the joint sections of the Court of Cassation confirm the provisions of the Brescia Court of Appeal and the Bergamo Court on the discriminatory behavior by Ryanair towards workers in the context of the proceedings legal action brought by Filt CGIL ".

THE "TRADE UNION BATTLE" CONTINUES

The secretary said that the sums received will be reinvested "in the defense of the rights of Ryanair workers, as our union and legal battle continues, until we obtain the protection of all the workers of the Irish company".

THE LEGAL QUESTION RYANAIR-FILT CGIL

Ryanair had been condemned in 2019 by the Brescia Court of Appeal for "discriminatory behavior towards workers who had relations with the union," Cuscito had explained at the time.

The sentence of the court of Brescia, which followed the ruling of the court of Bergamo, concerned the so-called "extinction clause". Or, in the words of Cuscito, the rule that "provided for the termination of the employment relationship of the flight attendants in the event that the worker had carried out work stoppages or had undertaken any other trade union action, effectively preventing employees to establish contacts with the trade union ".

THE CRITICISM OF THE GOVERNMENT

"Also in the light of this new pronouncement", Cuscito added today, referring to the sentence of the Supreme Court, "we consider it very serious that, while the largest Italian airlines such as Alitalia and Air Italy are closing, the government does not convene workers' representatives and of these companies but, as happened in recent days, you only meet the owners of a foreign company such as Ryanair ”.

WHAT CUSCITO SAID ABOUT COMPETITION

Cuscito specified that Filt CGIL is "in favor of fair competition, made up of subjects who respect the rules, wages, rights and their protections".

However, he argues that in Italy "all the part relating to the regulation of the Italian market is still missing, in a social and wage anti-dumping key, put in place by some low cost carriers that compete on our market, circumventing and compressing the protections of workers both for the regulation part and for the competition of the airport system ".

A system that, he adds, "continues to be based on payments of hundreds of millions of euros in non-transparent ways, thus distorting competition and the market".

THE REQUEST FOR A DIRECTOR'S BOOTH

Cuscito argues that it is necessary to establish a "control room" for air transport, "one of the sectors most affected by the pandemic". "The main actors" will have to participate in this cabin, and will serve to "rapidly proceed with the reform of the sector in the direction of compliance with labor rules, which provide for the same regulatory and remuneration treatments under the same operating conditions, starting from the application of the article 203 of the Relaunch decree ".

THE FINE OF THE ANTITRUST

Last May Ryanair was sentenced by the AGCM (the Antitrust Authority) to pay a fine of 4.2 million euros for unfair commercial practices.

The authority argued that the company had "provided incomplete and ambiguous information" regarding the causes of cancellation of flights after June 3, 2020 and "on the rights actually due to passengers, failing to provide adequate and main evidence of the possibility of reimbursement in money ”and offering only a replacement voucher. Travelers who managed to request a full refund also complained that they only received it after a long time.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/ryanair-filt-cgil-cassazione/ on Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:26:28 +0000.