Pilots and Aer Lingus clash over sick leave

The pay row between Aer Lingus and its pilots deepened on Thursday. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins DublinAer Lingus and its pilots’ union have clashed over sick leave, deepening the row between the pair ahead of next week’s industrial action at the airline.

An Ialpa note to members on Thursday says some pilots have contacted the union “in regard to threatening correspondence” from the airline’s human resources department relating to illness. Aer Lingus said earlier this week that it has cancelled 56 flights since January owing to increased illness among pilots, which prevented them from working out of hours.The airline confirmed on Thursday that it had written to Ialpa highlighting “an extraordinary increase in short-notice pilot illness over recent weeks” which it said was hitting operations.

A spokesman for Fórsa, the union of which Ialpa is a part, this week firmly rejected any suggestion that pilots were engaging in unofficial action.

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