Ryanair - Employment Agencies Regulations Opt out?
 

Hi, I can't say law is my strongest subject and as I've never been a contractor before I haven't come across these Regulations. But as I'm soon starting with RYR on the Storm contract I've been asked to decide whether I want to opt out of these Regs and to be honest I am none the wiser....Any RYR pilots if you could please chip in with some advice I'd be grateful. Thanks

Hi Mr 737

If you have a choice stay away from RYR at the moment. Read the comments on pprune, 99% is true and try to find sth. else.

Low pay, no respect twrds pilots at all, you won't be based home, all new agency contracts are floating life-style (your promised base is guide-line only), as CP being blamed for every little thing eg. track deviation in MAD 20000€ have to pay yourself(!), zero(!) decision or common sense allowed, severe issues and blaming by Base Captains or Chief-Pilot for taking extra fuel, etc... I could write a book about it...

you will not fly with anyone who is happy at the moment and you will see Base TREs, LTCs etc... going and taking F/O position in EK and elsewhere.

As CP expect net salary of about 5300€ net (no matter what they say, you will fly ish 750hrs), and you pay everything incl. ID, Food, Uniform etc... Absolutely everything! As F/O the same, however expect to earn about 3500€ net

Leave it chap, believe me!

Heard it is better to not opt out, contact IALPA mate they will be able to give you solid advice about this and other stuff if you are a member.

@TakeitEAsy Unfortunately I can confirm this. The moral is currently at an alltime low especially for FO's due to overcrewing, which means in otherwords a paycut..... Most guys are already really worried about the comming winter, if this overcrewing trend continues it will be hard for FO's to pay for their basic needs over the winter months: Rent, food, Transport ...
One thing is not entirely true, the word is that a few TRE's got recently accepted as DEC in EK...

Why on earth should someone OPT out. It means you are saying OK mate dont worry if you cant pay me....... weird

As an FO I can confirm the very low morale. The basic rule about RYR is, if they give advice favouring on opting out, then don't. Its only to screw you.

One thing I would highly recommend is joining REPAweb.org. A private forum for RYR pilots and I would highly recommend you join IALPA (most contractors do), look at REPAweb, I think its 15 quid a month for FOs and around 30 for CPTs (could be wrong on the skippers rate). The only way to improve and protect your current contract is by an association if you don't then I guarantee you in 4 years time if you are still RYR you will be earning less than your current contract now. Ask any FO or CPT who has done several years for proof. For example RYR 2000 agreement had an FO earning upto 74k in 2005. In our current year, that same FO now makes 33% of that.

Remember bring a water bottle! http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ies/thumbs.gif

No one is able to do a thing unless FR pilots en-masse join one of the associations and say no to some of the stuff happening.

Wind check,

I admire your enthusiasm at pointing the blame, you appear on every thread which involves CTC/RYR. I don't disagree with you that these practises must be stopped. Being 42 I will assume you have been a product of this industry longer than I have.

I hated the options I was presented with when I qualified, are you suggesting this is my fault? are you suggesting we all try and unite, as a group of students, to protect the industry from the ground up while the guys already inside do SFA? this is a change which older, and apparently wiser members of our profession didn't resist when it was knocking at the door. Instead, they sit on their high horse looking down, throwing insults and pointing the finger. You are more to blame for this than any new comer, old bean!

Superpilot, I understand that you probably have spent a lot of money training and Ryanair might be your only option at the moment. Salaries are low and getting lower, you will not be flying the hours you might expect and you can be based at over 50 locations in Europe. However the most important thing for you to consider is expansion of the fleet ends in about 10 weeks time. That it! Over! From September to get command someone has to leave. FR themselves expect 150 captains to leave a year, it may not be that high. FR has about 1500 captains so if between 100 - 150 leave a year, that means you are looking at 10- 15 years to command - min.
You have seen previous posts tellling you about too many FO' s in the company. I believe that they are starting from September to do the same with Captains. From their point of view it costs them the same, same amount per hour. Costs the same to have one guy do 900 hours as to have 2 guys do 450 hours, who looses out? Excess Captains insures against any future flucations in man power. Flooding the market with guys desperate to get a job elsewhere drives down wages across the industry.
Can you live for the next 10-15 years on a FR FO salary? Can you repay your loans? And don't plan on getting a few thousand hours with FR and then moving on, while that is happening now there is no guarantee for the future. The industry is moving towards hiring zero time jet hour pilots so in a few years you might be stuck in FR.
For now terms and conditions within the industry and particularly in FR are on a downward spiral. To all of you thinking of joining FR - please think very very carefully, there might be no going back.

Sadly, the only people to blame for this are Ryanair pilots themselves. They were actively courted by BALPA last year and voted not to become recognised. Surprise, surprise - you have been stuffed by your managers and your big boss MOL does not care if you live or die. The only answer is to get union recognition, but before you know it all the old stories about what happened at DanAir last century will be out. Then someone's uncle's friend knew someone who had a mate whose case BALPA did not take to the industrial tribunal. It is all so predictable - as is the future for Ryanair pilots without a union.

Yup, RYR threatened to change the roster, tranfers, close bases and do reverse rotations during the previous balpa campaign. Everyone looked at balpa and asked, we know they will do this, what will you do to stop it? Nothing was stopping RYR transferring voters out and putting cadets in, they've done this before to dilute votes. This isn't a company binded by any rules...

They never answered our questions about the threats and the campaign lost its drive. Nothing against balpa, they tried to help us and got experience of the beast we are actually trying to deal with. Now they have that experience and our campaign this time is network wide spearheaded by an association who has vast amounts of experience with RYR.

Cadets are a very big issue. Everyone who has left RYR In the past 2 years, would most likely be yes votes, to be replaced by cadets/dec who are most likely no voters, and we've lost several hundred pilots.

Well posted Depone and McBruce.

Ive always maintained that Ryanair is the easiest target for those outside the ring to piss their way in to. It all may seem very black and white to outside observers, however they're only scratching the surface. I'm not detracting from most people's concerns, some points are extremely valid. However if some wish to compare a BALPA campaign in EasyJet to one in this lot then please gain a little more insight. Talk to a less deluded BALPA rep who is prepared to be honest about what actually happened.

Welcome to the world of 53 bases, 30 plus nationalities, DECs just happy to have a job and 250 hr cadets who are affraid to make any more noise than a mouse fart. I'm actually surprised that IALPA and the ECA have got so far this time around.

Can I ask you; where do you see the indications that the industry is moving towards hiring zero time jet hour pilots? Just because BA launched a massive campaign last year where even not all of those 800 were cadets? For the rest I have no idea of examples, so clear my mind? :-)

Well heres the condradiction. either people are leaving en mass and you will get a command in Three weeks. or the truth that most are happy here and your command will takes yonks. either way avoid Repa .

I just received the Storm McGinley contract and face the same choice.
The previous replies did not shine much light on this matter.

I hope anyone can give advice whether it is wise to opt out of the regulations, or not?

I think the advice at the beginning of the thread was "Crystal Claire" ask RYR what they prefer, & do the opposite.

Why would you contemplate opting out of something that "may" offer a modicum of protection.

One thing for sure, you are definitely Ryanair material :ok: :ugh:

Get some professional advice from an accountant.

Do not opt out Why give up on a law that is supposed to protect you . The fact that an agency has the audacity to ask this in the first place is remarkable and for you to even think about it well .....

Meerkat,

We're all suffering because of the Ryan-ization of the pilot profession. Your mob hardly offers new pilots a better deal...or old ones for that matter....

:eek:

Collectively, RyanAir and Easyjet have ~500 airframes between them and actively discriminate against experienced pilots, especially in the RHS.

Just imagine what the job prospects/T&C's would be for UK pilots if that wasn't the case?

Our industry needs solidarity across airline boundaries and borders these days....

Well this was suggested as early as 1970, and not much seems to have happened since then....