He finishes his TR and they take him on but dont pay him for 7 months?? It just cant be legal and i dont see how this can happen no matter how extensive their beurocracy department in HR is!
It can be so because there is an
expectation of a job, caused by applying to Ryanair and all of the talk being about Ryanair. However, the training contract is NOT with Ryanair. There is NO talk about Ryanair salary or conditions and NEVER, NEVER is there a document with "Ryanair" written on it with a promise, or salary figures. There is no contract with Ryanair at the beginning. It is even possible that this will be followed up by a "Ryanair Training Contract", which is a means by which - having paid for your TR and contributed to the profits of Ryanair - you can be further "bonded" to a company which STILL has not told you if you have a job, or how and when you will be paid. Afterwards, those who realise that things are not good (having met some
real FR pilots in the interim) find themselves without any legal entitlements. Remember that, after all is said and done, you got what you signed for, which is a TR.
So that means they have pilots flying for free for them, the pilot leaves out of anger from no pay, then Ryanair do it again??! How can this be?
It can be like that because the queue of people willing to sign up for this kind of madness is as long as your arm. Those of us with direct experience of this modern day exploitation are repeatedly ignored by willing candidates when we point all of this out on
PPRuNe. It will continue indefinitely. Which is why the pay for all such pilots continues to decline very significantly, literally on a month by month basis.
Just because it is "off the wall" behaviour does not mean that it does not take place.