Ryanair cabin crew members looking to bring a case against their employer do not have to turn to the Irish labor Tribunal just because the company’s aircraft are registered in Ireland. They can equally lodge their case in the country in which they regularly carry out their work and so in order to designate that location their officially assigned base (home base) is a significant indicator. Thus the argument underlying the CJEU ruling handed down on 14 September (Cases C-168/16 and C-169/16).
Between 2009 and 2011 workers from Portugal, Belgium, and Spain were employed as cabin staff by both Ryanair and Crewlink, both Irish registered companies. Their services were considered to having been carried out in Ireland in so far as the aircraft in which they worked were registered in Ireland. However their employment contracts mentioned the Belgian airport of Charleroi as their “home base” and called it the employee home base since these employees commenced and ended their working day at
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