the article seems to suggest it is self employed contractors who are affected rather than traditional employees so I am not sure how this fits into employment law.
Its interesting that the article states
“Capt Evan Cullen told an Oireachtas Committee investigation into bogus self-employment that about half the pilots working in Irish-registered airlines were hired as self-employed contractors.
He said all Irish-registered airlines were involved to some extent in employing workers as self-employed contractors with many global airlines, who were “not household names”, setting up companies and registering here to take advantage of Irish labour law.
For the pilots there were implications for wages, sick pay, maternity cover and pensions, as well as collective bargaining and other rights.”
Maybe the Irish need to start clamping down on this type of behaviour, especially the bogus self employment part.