Aer Lingus in High Court over Team entitlements

AER LINGUS has been accused before the High Court of breaching a Supreme Court decision requiring it to treat 44 workers with Team Aer Lingus on the same basis as comparable Aer Lingus staff who remained with the national airline.

In the latest stage of a long and complex legal battle, the former Team engineers, who have been redeployed as clerical workers, baggage handlers and cleaners, have asked the High Court to grant an injunction compelling Aer Lingus to give them from now and until their retirement the same wages and entitlements as if they had never left the airline.

They say those entitlements should be backdated to March 2006 when the Supreme Court made formal declarations in their case.