Edition 42
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Friday, December 9, 2011
JUST THE JOB WHAT A LOTTA BOTTLE! Picture: Colin Whitfield
THE massive campaign to raise funds for 10-year-old Aitana Garcia Doiz to undergo life-saving surgery in America has been taken up with a vengeance by El Raso resident Jeff Downing. With around 700 tons of plastic caps required to generate the €200,000-plus cost of a double heart and lung transplant, the veteran fundraiser has had large water bottles left alongside the
urbanisation’s communal rubbish bins. An attached note asks residents to deposit their plastic tops in the bottle rather than the bin iself. “We can get to a lot more people this way -- and we’ve already filled more than half a dozen bottles in no time at all,’’ says Jeff, who is pictured above with helper Marie Whitfield and some of the full containers.
By DONNA GEE RYANAIR have backtracked on a ridiculous demand that laid-off employees at Alicante Airport must NOT work elsewhere while they are grounded.
Courier pressure pays as Ryanair ease work ban on laid-off staff
The ban - forced by the slashing of flights during the winter - meant that dozens of breadwinners faced a winter with no income, and several disgruntled cabin-crew members to contact The Courier. One insisted: “Ryanair don’t care that for months we have no income to pay our bills and buy food. We cannot apply for unemployment benefit or anything like that because we are still employed.’’ Initially, Ryanair’s In it, the instruction “you European Communications chief Daniel De Carvalho will not be engaged in insisted there was no such employment, paid or otherban, saying: “All cabin crew wise, with any other compaare free to work elsewhere ny, organisation or individduring periods of unpaid ual’’ is suffixed with the words ’without advanced leave’’. We can reveal that there written permission from indeed WAS a block on tak- Ryanair.’’ Meanwhile, Mr Carvalho ing temporary employment ANYWHERE - as the memo insisted: “Heather Daly’s letfrom Heather Daly, Ryanair’s ter was already brought to European In-Flight Bases our attention by a number of our crew, and has recently manager, shows. But following the Courier’s been corrected and reissued, revelations that staff were so that the two clauses which facing months with no refer to staff on unpaid leave income whatsoever, Daly cir- not working elsewhere have culated a ‘’corrected and been amended to include the reissued’’ memo on Tuesday. phrase “without prior written
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permission from Ryanair”. “A number of crew have already sought and obtained permission to work elsewhere while on unpaid leave this winter. “The reference in Heather Daly’s memo to reviewing the requirement for unpaid leave in early January will clearly depend upon the dates on which our aircraft at various bases will return to service. “There may well be some further periods of unpaid leave for some crew, whereas others will be returning to flying duties at the end of January. This again is the normal management of unpaid leave during quiet periods in the tourism industry in Spain and Portugal during the winter. “Like many other tourism
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