Ryanair sacks all pilots and cabin crew in the Netherlands after they refuse to re-locate to bases in Morocco and Belarus

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 Ryanair has reportedly fired all its pilots and cabin crew members based in the Netherlands after they refused to be 'voluntarily' relocated to bases in Morocco and Belarus.According to Mail Online, the Irish low-cost airline officially filed for the collective firing of all personnel at the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency (UWV), an autonomous government administrative authority which handles unemployment benefits.The airline cited bad economic results for their Dutch base at Eindhoven, which was closed on 5th November, as the reason for the mass-dismissal.However, Unions VNV and FNV, which represent the pilots and flight attendants respectively, said they will appeal the mass-firing with the government body.Chairman Joost van Doesburg of pilot union VNV said he is surprised that the UWV accepted Ryanair's application to fire all of its employees in the first place.He said that Ryanair would need to come forward with proof of the bad economic numbers for the firing of all the employees to be accepted, which according to him the low-cost airline has not yet done.According to the unions, Ryanair decided to close its Eindhoven base and get rid of its Netherlands-based employees as a retaliatory measure after pilots went on strike in early October for two days.Sixteen angry Ryanair pilots even started a court case against the airline in the Southern Dutch city of Den Bosch, asking the judge to ban the airline from transferring them to bases in far-flung cities in North Africa and Eastern Europe.A VNV union spokesman said: 'The goal was not higher wages or more days off, but a change in culture and a guarantee of basic rights for employees in accordance with Dutch standards.'Ryanair has to stop with the divide-and-conquer culture, and has to respect employee's fundamental rights. However, our actions have made Ryanair decide to close its Eindhoven base.'That means that the pilots are being forced to move to southern or eastern Europe or even to North Africa.'  Source: Mail Online.The post Ryanair sacks all pilots and cabin crew in the Netherlands after they refuse to re-locate to bases in Morocco and Belarus appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.