The National Court has declared null and void the collective dismissal carried out by Ryanair when it closed its bases in Lanzarote, Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Girona. Thus, the ruling obliges the company to reinstate the workers "immediately", under the same conditions as before the dismissal and with immediate payment of the salaries they have not received since the termination of the contract.
The ruling fully upholds the lawsuit filed by the USO and Sitcpla unions, representatives of Ryanair's cabin crew, together with the Sepla of pilots, against the employment regulation file (ERE) for 224 workers from these four bases, including the one in Lanzarote.
The ruling states that the company "did not want to address a consultation period", as stated in the Workers' Statute, and "bad faith, fraud, coercion and abuse of rights are observed in the employer's conduct", according to USO.
The general secretary of USO in Ryanair, Gustavo Silva, affected by this ERE, has pointed out that the National Court has been "very harsh in its ruling against a company that has always used coercion and threats to its staff" and that "has scorned the laws and all the Spanish authorities".
The hearing, held on March 10, lasted almost seven hours and in it "it was proven" that the evidence that the productive and organizational causes on which Ryanair based its decision to present the ERE "were not justified" and "some, in fact, were non-existent", the union emphasizes.
