Yes - It's Unpaid leave for permanent employees.
You will get 3/4 of your monthly salary.
In return you will get 3 days off.
They combine your normal four days off (as we work 5/4) with 3 forced days off to make up seven days and call it a week. Which in my opinion is another rip off.
What you need to bear in mind when something like this happens - the guys in management are bonus driven and to ensure a decent bonus they have to come up with these cost cutting measures.
The truth about Ryanair - they will always try to cut back on your salary. They have been doing it for years and will continue to do so.
Some on here seem happy for this to happen - why, I'm not sure, but it's usually the management or management wannabe type that think in this unusual manner.
At the moment it's only a weeks unpaid leave (3 days off), but this will increase, if it goes unchallenged it will be an easy hit for the bonus minded manager.
No reason why rostering can't squeeze our 900 hours into 11 months.
Not Ryanair bashing....just the facts. I actually like working at FR, but would wish they stopped trying to screw us.
At present we have no means to negotiate with the company. It's a dictatorship.