After theagreement reached with the Irish pilots, Ryanair takes another step forward to resolve the frictions with pilots and flight attendants that have caused disruption across Europe in recent months. In this case, by the way, the turning point directly concerns us.
A few months after the recognition of the union representatives, the low cost airline has in fact signed the first collective labor agreement with the pilots operating in Italy. The signing comes after almost eight months of negotiations with Anpac, the National Professional Association of Civil Aviation.
According to what was announced by the same association through a note, the new contract represents "a historic event for the Irish carrier as the signed collective labor agreement under Italian law is also the first collective labor agreement for Ryanair's flight crew signed in Europe". The agreement, it goes on to explain, was signed and approved "by a very large majority" of the more than 300 associated pilots.
Going into detail, with this signature, Ryanair recognizes de facto to its pilots the rules established by the Italian national law in terms of severance pay. Fondaereo, a supplementary contractual pension fund, is introduced, and compliance with the contribution to Sanivolo, the supplementary health care fund, with the payment of social security contributions and full recognition of social protection for maternity and paternity is also established.
The contract was submitted to an internal referendum among the associated pilots who approved it with a large majority. Anpac expresses "great satisfaction with the result obtained which gives greater protection and guarantees, as well as a reasonable financial recognition, to Ryanair Pilots, making the Irish carrier's harmonization process concrete which began at the end of last year".
The path, the association explains again, will have to be strengthened on a fiscal level which will also have to be improved with the intervention of the Italian Government, through the Ministry of Economy and that of Transport. The aim will be to "finalize the payment of tax levies by Ryanair in Italy as opposed to what happens today, due to the application of the Italy-Ireland bilateral agreement, which obliges the carrier led by Michael O'Leary to pay all 'Ireland of tax levies made to employees working in Italy”.
