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Old 31st October 2007 | 21:13
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atse
 
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For those of you not familiar with Ryanair personnel management techniques and who believe that their finding "typos" in contracts, etc. is illegal, you need to understand how this really works.

It is no different from the new Second Officer who was promised a particular salary, a particular Base and a full-time contract and who finds - AFTER parting with their money for he Type Rating that "things have changed", "you were misinformed", "the situation has changed", etc, etc.

Your first dilemma is: can you do something?

Your second dilemma is: should you do something?

Your third dilemma is: can you afford to do something?

With Ryanair it is not difficult to find things which are considered by passengers or employees to be illegal or improper. But when you go to do something about your problem you immediately face the same aggression, this time via lawyers. What you say is an infringement of your contract they says is not an infringement. That means "see you in court". You can expect court with Ryanair to be a bit different too... there will be no "deals" or "offers". There will be counter claims and escalations and delays.

This organisation uses the court system as a means of achieving its ends and it takes a very determined person to take them on. Hence they don't care about the cost, like most other organisations. Individuals without the support of a pilots association are unlikely to be able to do so.

This all seems so unbelievable to many pilots that they don't believe it. Well, it is not for the want of post here over many years (not to mention a couple of well publicised court cases in Dublin).
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