A former Ryanair pilot who claimed that chief executive, Michael O'Leary became a little bit
aggressive and refused to release pay and conditions at the airline, has
lost his unfair dismissal case against the airline.
Patrick
Burns, originally from Co Louth, went all the way to the airline's chief
executive to appeal a decision to move him from his base in Marseille
in the south of France to the remote airport of Kaunas in Lithuania -
some 1,800km away.
Mr. Burns (40) claimed he was unfairly
dismissed from his €124,000-a-year job and was assigned the post in
Kaunas as punishment for failing to fill out a transfer request form
when Ryanair closed its Marseille base following a row with the French
government over tax in October 2010. However, in a majority decision,
the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) ruled that Mr Burns was not
unfairly dismissed.
The EAT found that Mr. Burns had ample
opportunity to apply for a base of his choosing in the event that the
Marseille base would close, which it eventually did, and he did not do
so.
The EAT also found that the majority of Mr. Burns's
colleagues "engaged in the process and had no difficulty getting the
case that they wanted".
Ryanair pointed out to the hearing that
Mr. Burns' contract allowed for him to be transferred to any of the
company's European bases without compensation.
Source: http://www.herald.ie
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