easyJet face employment prosecution in France
21.08.09
easyJet is to be prosecuted on charges of violating French employment law by failing to declare staff employed at Paris airports under British contracts. The budget airline has been under investigation since 2006 over the legal status of 170 workers then based at Orly Airport near Paris. It has been ordered to stand trial, state prosecutor's in Creteil near Paris have announced.
It is accused of failing to declare workers in Orly between June 2003 and December 2006. No date has been set for the hearing at which the carrier will answer charges of concealing employment, hampering staff representation and failing to register business activities in France. If found guilty it could face a bill for several million euros in unpaid French social security and health insurance contributions.
Under a French Government decree adopted in November 2006, budget airlines with bases in France are obliged to comply with French labour laws. In 2007 France's highest court rejected appeals by both easyJet and Ryanair, who argued that their cabin staff worked for company headquarters outside France and were not subject to French law. Orly, according to easyJet, was merely a 'rest area' for its workers, with the planes their actual workplaces.
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