Jet pilot might not seem like a ‘gig,’ but at Ryanair, it is
At a recent shareholders’ meeting in Dublin, CE Michael O’Leary of Ryanair issued a mea culpa. Under his watch, the airline had bungled its fall vacation schedule for pilots. Over 2,000 flights would have to be canceled. To contain the crisis, Ryanair might cut a week of vacation from the airline’s 4,200 pilots — many of whom aren’t full-time employees but independent contractors. If they “misbehaved” by declining to help, he added, they would get no “goodies” in the future. Ryanair controls its expenses by using a mix of full-time employees and self-employed pilots recruited through outside agencies. The approach helps Ryanair sidestep labour regulations and high social security taxes in many of the 33 countries where it operates, making its labour costs among the lowest in the European industry. <br/>
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Jet pilot might not seem like a ‘gig,’ but at Ryanair, it is
At a recent shareholders’ meeting in Dublin, CE Michael O’Leary of Ryanair issued a mea culpa. Under his watch, the airline had bungled its fall vacation schedule for pilots. Over 2,000 flights would have to be canceled. To contain the crisis, Ryanair might cut a week of vacation from the airline’s 4,200 pilots — many of whom aren’t full-time employees but independent contractors. If they “misbehaved” by declining to help, he added, they would get no “goodies” in the future. Ryanair controls its expenses by using a mix of full-time employees and self-employed pilots recruited through outside agencies. The approach helps Ryanair sidestep labour regulations and high social security taxes in many of the 33 countries where it operates, making its labour costs among the lowest in the European industry. <br/>
