Here'a google translation of the news appearing these days on Italian media.
«Ryanair non ha pagato contributi per 12 milioni» - Corriere Bergamo
The CHARGE
"Ryanair has not paid
contributions to 12 million »
The issue was also raised in France and the company closed the base in Marseille. The company takes in Dublin rather than in Italy according to the labor inspectors
Airline tickets at bargain prices, but with some aplomb: the provincial labor disputes of Bergamo Ryanair to evading contributions to nearly 12 million as assumed in Dublin, rather than in Italy, its 650 employees who work in Lombardy and benefit of the national health system. One trick that would allow the giant low cost savings since the Irish taxation is much lighter than ours. For this labor inspectors to demand formally ask INPS 11 million 860 thousand euros to the company of Mr. O'Leary.
Here's the anomaly, according to the minutes of cool-fresh notification: while other foreign airlines that have employees take a second seat Italian Italian rules (such as Italy Lufthansa, Air France Italy), Ryanair sign contracts in Dublin where the taxation salaries for up to 32 thousand is less than 10% (by us nearly 70). In fact, however, Ryanair employees, although employees of Irish law, working in Italy, where they live and enjoy health benefits. In practice, enjoy public services that do not pay. The investigations were born after reports of CISL and Anpav (flight attendants) who complained of changes in competition for the presence of contributory schemes between different companies. So much so that 12 had closed, leaving 4,000 people on the street.
The application for an injunction based on the rule of Italian social security contributions subject to the personnel working in Italy working for a foreign airline to have here a "permanent establishment". This question has already been raised in France a few years ago, but when i first started popping up litigation, Ryanair announced the closure of the base of Marseille in order not to subject their staff to the French legislation. It remains to see how you would here in the event of disbursement Millionaire: If you had to leave the airport of Bergamo, the economic consequences for the airport and the armature would be heavy. An epilogue to avoid completely.
Italy, according to Ryanair, is the flagship of the Irish company, which provides a fifth of the traffic, they almost undermine the supremacy of the United Kingdom. And in turn Orio is the flagship of the Italian airports served by the carrier to Dublin. According to the Labour Inspectors of Bergamo, Orio Ryanair has entrusted to the local Sacbo, the management company of the airport orobico, equipped with computers, telephones and fax machines, shelves containing communications service, which are used by Ryanair staff (pilots and flight attendants flight), via an intranet connection service with a personal password, to agree with the Dublin office working arrangements. All crews go to the crew-room check-in and check-out and gather an hour before departure for a briefing. Moreover, the company has identified for each contract of employment base of service to which the employee is assigned, expressly providing for the obligation to live within an hour away. Inspectors write: "If the base is the place where it begins and ends work performance, it follows that Ryanair has identified the airport of Orio as the workplace." More than enough, according to inspectors, to qualify as a local headquarters building Ryanair working in Italy, and thus liable for contributions to Italian taxation.
Ryanair argues that in Italy has no permanent establishment. All decisions affecting employees, flights, customers and suppliers, routes and manner of execution of work performance, are taken in Dublin. Employment contracts, according to the company cheap, are governed by Irish law, the aircraft are registered in Ireland. All employees are paid by Ryanair's head office in Ireland, pay taxes and social security contributions to the Irish authorities and have a bank account in Ireland where the salary is credited. In a nutshell: Ryanair claims to be Irish in all its forms. For the Provincial Directorate of Labour of Bergamo, however, Ryanair is Irish but Italian, given that is based in Orio. At stake are nearly 12 million euros of unpaid contributions themselves (to be clear: most of the hole created by the City of Bergamo last three cycles). The power struggle has just begun.
Richard Nisoli8 February 2012