In an email sent on May 15 to elected cabin crew (PNC, hostesses and stewards), management threatens to "fire 27 people" if the SNPNC-FO "does not quickly agree to accept lower wages", Stéphane Salmon of SNPNC-FO told AFP, confirming information from RTL.
The company "uses the Covid-19 crisis as a pretext to be able to lower wages, already the lowest in the sector", while it is a "very profitable" company, he protested.
According to this email, which AFP was able to consult, the management of Malta Air (Ryanair group), which operates for the Irish company in France, wants to reduce by 10% the remuneration of its approximately 180 cabin crew members, for five years, until June 30, 2025.
For hostesses and stewards paid at Smic, as "it is not possible to lower their wages", the company intends to reduce their working time to 80%, said Mr. Salmon.
“For the moment, we are waiting for management to come back to us. They cannot impose it unilaterally. France is not the far west, ”said Damien Mourgues, union delegate SNPNC-FO and member of the company's social and economic committee (CSE).
According to RTL, the management also wants to lower the remuneration of the pilots (a reduction "of 20%"), failing which it would lay off "23 pilots out of the 81 that the company has on its three French bases" (Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseille) .
The SNPL, the pilots' union, "has decided to cooperate in the implementation of a collective performance agreement" against "a commitment by Ryanair not to dismiss any pilots," adds RTL.
AFP, neither the SNPL nor the management of the company reacted on Monday.
The secretary general of FO, Yves Veyrier, denounced on the microphone of RTL the "predatory behavior", "neither legal nor acceptable" of this company, which did not organize "even a meeting of the committee regular social and economic ”.
This company "does not respect the procedures provided by the labor code," confirmed to AFP Me Fiodor Rilov, lawyer for the SNPNC-FO and the CSE of the company.
