Air hostess loses Irish bid for redundancy payments

A FORMER British Midland air hostess has failed in her bid to receive redundancy payments under Irish terms, having already accepted a package under British law.

Yvonne Scales, 40, had been working as cabin crew with the airline at its Manchester base when it announced there would be redundancies there.

An Employment Appeals Tribunal in Dublin heard yesterday that she was given the option of a trial period working in the airline’s Irish base, or of taking up the redundancy terms on offer based on her work in Manchester, provided she made that decision within a certain timeframe.