The Supreme Court has ratified that the cabin crew of Ryanair and its contracting agencies in Spain should receive two extraordinary payments in the period prior to the application of their collective agreement.
The ruling, final since September 22 after dismissing the airline's appeal and confirming the previous stance of the National Court, obliges the companies to pay the amounts owed retroactively.
Ryanair argued that said payments were already prorated in the monthly payrolls. However, the High Court maintains that, to validate a proration, an explicit contractual agreement is required, which is not included in the contracts of the affected personnel.
The measure impacts the period prior to the company's first agreement, a pact signed with CCOO that established the proration of extras without a salary increase, and which is currently challenged by the USO union awaiting trial on October 27.
This judicial decision allows thousands of workers to initiate individual claims to recover the amounts not collected during that interval, subject to the settlement of each case.
On the other hand, the sentence dismisses the claims related to holidays, vacations, and training, strictly limiting the ruling to the payment of extraordinary bonuses and the legal criteria for their proration.
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