easyJet face French employment prosecution
21.08.09
easyJet is to be prosecuted in France on charges of violating employment law by failing to declare staff employed at Orly Airport near Paris. The budget airline has been under investigation since 2006 over the legal status of 170 workers then based at the airport. It has been ordered to stand trial, state prosecutor's in Creteil have announced.
Under a French Government decree adopted in November 2006, airlines with bases in France are obliged to comply with French labour laws. easyJet is accused of failing to declare workers at Orly between June 2003 and December 2006.
No date has been set for the hearing, at which the airline will answer charges of concealing employment, hampering staff representation and failing to register business activities. If found guilty it could face a bill for several million euros in unpaid French social security and health insurance contributions.
In 2007 France's highest court rejected appeals by easyJet and Ryanair, who argued that their 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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