I heard from a friend working at the norwegian tax office that most probably the brookfield selfemployed contract is illegal according to norwegian laws. The main problem beeing that norwegian labour laws are very strict, and ryan air is avoiding taxes for social securities. A big company like ryan air should have employees and not contractors. In Norway a selfemployee must self make sure to pay all the taxes. Like 14% worker fee tax, + 30 up to 45 % income tax depending on salary and deductions. The subcontractor or a contract may pay tax up to 59% if no income deduction. The tax office will look into ryan air and the company handling all the subcontracts "brookfield" at Rygge base.......Recently some polish workers won in court as the employer forced them to be self employed. The court said the company was cheating taxes by its buisness model based on self employees also cheating some uknowing polish workers.
In norway there is a big difference if you work as self employed or employee. An busdriver can never be self employed unless he ownes his own bus. Also an self employed has no social benefiths like an employee. If an ryan air pilot is working as an employee you are garanteed sickpay, social security etc. The company must pay the worker tax 14% and the employee pay the income tax. But then again if you get sacked the goverment pay you 66% of your salary in unemployment wage for up to 3 years, then your headed for soscial minimum wage.
google translate this story from norwegian:
Knusende dom for NTC | www.frifagbevegelse.no
Those self employed brookfield pilots based at rygge not paying taxes, be careful, recoommend you to contact the norwegian tax office as soon as possible to clearify.
This is why they got interested:
Ryanair faces tax probe in France - Irish, Business - Independent.ie
In norway selfemployed is not commonly used as its conditions are not normal to the norwegian labour code. If a contracter gets fired he has no rights. The contractors usally have 3 months notice, but ryan air can just put them on stby thus no fly no pay. As an employee you have right to pay, thats why the court in norway think this is a fraud of taxes.
I think that this kind of contracts show that the pilots dont know much about law, taxes and social security, thus hope this helps.