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If there is no new collective agreement by May 21, the base in Vienna will be closed. Employees must forgo the salary components and “benefits” of the Niki period.
Vienna He did not want state aid, neither in Ireland nor with daughters like Laudamotion in Austria, Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary told “Handelsblatt” in the Friday edition. You want to overcome the crisis in your own strength. And here Ryanair is now putting the savings stick first and foremost among employees and giving Laudamotion an ultimatum.
If a new union agreement is not agreed before May 21, the Airbus base in Vienna will be closed, Laudamotion management sent an email to employees, which was published by “AviationNet-Online”. Laudamotion operates only Airbus. Therefore, the closure “would mean the loss of all Airbus jobs in Vienna,” the post continues. Laudamotion currently employs about 550 people.
In the future, flights would be taken by Ryanair direct planes in Vienna (Boeing 737) or by planes from abroad. The company Laudamotion would only be active as a wet lease for other subsidiaries of the group, in other words, only one shell.
Wage exemption required
To prevent this from happening, Ryanair demands a series of concessions from Laudamotion employees and the corresponding Vida union. For example, pilot salaries would need to be reduced by an average of 15 percent, flight attendant salaries by five percent, and flight staff working hours should be set on a fixed grid: five days of flight , three days off. Furthermore, Ryanair wants “the abolition of all the benefits of the” Niki “period that” do not fit a two-year airline with losses. “(Jaz)
(“Die Presse”, print edition, April 24, 2020)
