Dublin-based Ryanair, the largest low-cost airline in Europe, said in a statement on Tuesday that it had signed a collective labor agreement concerning its Italy-based staff's working conditions with Italian pilot union ANPAC.
ROME (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th August, 2018) Dublin-based Ryanair, the largest low-cost airline in Europe, said in a statement on Tuesday that it had signed a collective labor agreement concerning its Italy-based staff's working conditions with Italian pilot union ANPAC.
"Ryanair today (28 Aug) confirmed that its Italian pilots had voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) which was negotiated and signed between Ryanair and ANPAC (Italian Airline Pilots Association) on 9 August last," the statement read.
The deal was reportedly signed after eight months of negotiations.
"We welcome this first CLA with our Italian pilots and hope that it will be shortly followed by a similar agreement covering our Irish pilots. We have invited our UK, German and Spanish unions to meet with us in the coming days so that we can negotiate and hopefully agree similar pilot CLAs in these other larger markets," Ryanair's Chief People Officer Eddie Wilson said, as quoted on Ryanair's website.
On August 23, Ryanair said that it had reached an agreement with the Irish Forsa public service staff union on the working conditions and wages for Ryanair's Irish staff.
Following an over year-long dispute with Ryanair over working conditions, salaries, medical leave conditions and pension schemes, its employees went on strikes this summer, calling on the company to finally introduce changes. Strikes in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, held in late July and early August, resulted in hundred of flights canceled.
Ryanair operates flights to 216 destinations in 37 countries. The airline's staff comprises over 13,000 people.
