Court of Appeal Rules that Ryanair Agency Pilot Is Worker

BALPA wins first-of-its-kind legal victory on worker status for Pilots.

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Court of Appeal rules that Ryanair agency pilot is worker

A Ryanair pilot has won a landmark legal victory on agency worker status at the Court of Appeal. The post Court of Appeal rules that Ryanair agency pilot is worker appeared first on Personnel Today.

Ryanair DAC v Lutz — [2025] WLR(D) 358

EMPLOYMENT — Working time provisions — Paid annual leave — Claimant pilot supplied by company to airline — Claimant bringing claim against company seeking annual unpaid leave — Whether claimant “crew member” and/ or “worker” — Civil Aviation (Working Time) Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/756), reg 3 — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, arts 31,47

Court of Appeal delivers landmark workers’ rights victory for aviation sector

In a significant ruling for employment rights, the Court of Appeal has upheld a key judgement that a Ryanair pilot, engaged via an aviation employment agency, was in fact a ‘worker’ and not a self-employed contractor as previously claimed. The decision is expected to have widespread implications for employment practices across the aviation sector and beyond. The court found that pilot Jason Lutz, who was hired through agency Storm Global to fly …

Ryanair loses appeal in landmark employment case

In a landmark ruling likely to have significant implications for UK employers, the Court of Appeal has upheld an earlier legal decision that a pilot flying for Ryanair was not a self-employed contractor and therefore entitled to full employment rights. The Court ruled that Jason Lutz had been wrongly classified as self-employed and was a ‘worker’ of the aviation employment agency Storm Global, as well as their ‘agency worker’ hired out to work f…

Judgment handed down in Jason Lutz v (1) Ryanair DAC; (2) Storm Global Ltd - Old Square Chambers

1. Summary: In Lutz, the Court of Appeal addressed whether in a tri-partite agency relationship an employment relationship exists between the individual and the intermediary agency, notwithstanding that the hirer is responsible for direction and control on a day-to-day basis. In finding that Mr Lutz was a worker employed under a contract with the agency, the Court confirmed the wide and inclusive scope of the protective concept of worker status,…