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Norway tells Ryanair to change job contracts

Ryanair must bring its Norway-based employees' working hours into line with Norwegian law by November, or face a fine, the country's air traffic regulator has demanded.

Published: 16 July 2013 10:33 CEST

Norway tells Ryanair to change job contracts

Part of the Ryanair fleet at Stansted. File photo: Paolo Margari/Flikr

The Norwegian Air Traffic Agency reported on Tuesday that while it found no gross work environment abuse by Ryanair at Moss Airport in Rygge, the Irish budget carrier must submit more information and has until November to get its job contracts in line with Norwegian regulations.

The agency (Luftfartstilsynet) said on Tuesday that Ryanair had until November 1st to ensure that employment contracts for its staff in Norway falls in line with laws governing working hours in Norway. If amendments are made before then, the airline will not risk a fine.

"We have asked the company to clarify some points regarding staff working hours and time off, and as long as this is in order, we don't have any reprimands concerning how Ryanair in Norway acts in regard to occupational health and safety," agency spokesman Bjørn Erlandsen told the Aftenposten newspaper.

The Irish carrier found itself in hot water after complains were made about low wages paid to its Norway-based staff. The report presented on Tuesday did not, however, look at salaries.

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UPDATE: Ryanair passenger jet makes emergency landing in Berlin over 'fake bomb threat'

A Ryanair flight making an emergency landing

The flight from Dublin to Krakow made the unexpected diversion after a reported bomb threat, German newspaper Bild Zeitung said.

“We were notified by the Krakow airport that an airport employee received a phone call saying an explosive device had been planted on the plane,” said regional police spokesman, Sebastian Glen.

“German police checked and there was no device, no bomb threat at all. So we know this was a false alarm,” he told AFP on Monday.

“The perpetrator has not been detained, but we are doing everything possible to establish their identity,” Glen added, saying the person faces eight years in prison.

With 160 people on board, the flight arrived at the Berlin Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 pm Sunday, remaining on the tarmac into early Monday morning.

A Berlin police spokesperson said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The passengers will resume their journey to Poland on board a spare aeroplane,” she told AFP, without giving more precise details for the alert.

The flight was emptied with the baggage also searched and checked with sniffer dogs, German media reported.

The passengers were not able to continue their journey until early Monday morning shortly before 4:00 am. The federal police had previously classified the situation as harmless. The Brandenburg police are now investigating the case.

Police said that officers had completed their security checks “without any danger being detected”.

“The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landed reported an air emergency and was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER,” airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told Bild.

“The aircraft is currently in a safe position,” a spokeswoman for the police told the newspaper.

The incident comes a week after a Ryanair flight was forced to divert to Belarus, with a passenger — a dissident journalist — arrested on arrival.

And in July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.

READ ALSO: Germany summons Belarus envoy over forced Ryanair landing

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