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From what I understand the whole month off is there to avoid UK labour legislation. On paper you are a contractor hired by Brookfield. If they hire you for 12 months in the year you are technically a full-time employee and that would entail more costs for Brookfield.
Maybe, but this doesn't explain why the guys employed directly by Ryanair as employees on a Ryanair contract, also now have to take one month off.
I have it on good authority that it was introduced simply to make the rostering department's job easier, by cutting down on the number of annual leave requests they had to process before this rule was introduced. Unfortunately as the pilot workforce has grown, the back office systems (most of them non computerised !) have struggled to cope .....
