Ryanair has signed agreements with trade unions in Belgium that will apply the country’s employment laws to its pilots and cabin crew.
The new Collective Labour Agreements (CLAs) agreed with CNE-CSC and LBC-NVK will come into force on January 31, 2019.
The deal follows similar agreements signed over the past week with pilot unions SEPLA in Spain, SPAC in Portugal and BALPA in the UK, covering all of Ryanair’s directly employed Spanish, Portuguese and UK Pilots.
Eddie Wilson, chief people officer at the budget carrier, said: “We are pleased to have signed this latest CLA covering all of our directly employed pilots and cabin crew in Belgium.
“These signed union agreements in Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the UK again demonstrate the considerable progress we’re making in concluding union agreements with our people in our major EU markets.
“We expect that these new agreements will encourage the cabin crew unions in both Spain and Portugal to remove competitor airline employees (who have been blocking progress) and to quickly conclude cabin crew agreements in those two countries, as that’s what our Portuguese and Spanish cabin crew are now demanding.”