Ryanair’s Spanish pilot union files lawsuit over contracts

Spanish pilots’ union SEPLA has filed a lawsuit against Ryanair in a bid to get the airline to apply Spanish labour law to its members’ contracts. The carrier is locked in a wide-ranging labour relations dispute with its workforce across Europe, after agreeing to recognise unions in Dec 2017. The process of negotiating agreements with individual unions has proved complicated so far and the LCC is facing industrial action by pilots and cabin crew in several countries. “The only thing we want is for our pilots to have the same rights and obligations as established by Spanish regulations, as well as the negotiation of a statutory collective agreement as other airlines in the same sector of the competition have,” SEPLA said. <br/>