Originally Posted by
full of luv
If NAI set up a company and operated out of an EU country, there wouldn't be as much of a concern. It's the cabotage feature that alarms people, the setting up of a shell company in Ireland to take advantage of EU's lucrative open skies treaty, but not using the EU's comprehensive labor laws, maint regulation, and oversight.
Indeed, but unfortunately, there isn't one set of EU labour laws - each member country has it's own which are to be followed/exploited. The larger, more influential EU states have very robust and strong labour laws, but many don't. It is a shame that such disparity exists, such is life.
As for oversight; that really isn't what the EU free trade practice is about. It was more an idea to break down barriers to international trade. In almost all instances (EU open skies being a notable exception), each state operates completely independently, with ease of trade access with one another. That's backfired in many ways! There are, for want of a better word 'master documents' in some areas of regulations, like EASA/JAA/WHATEVER, but they're frankly very loose, and each state has large variances from it, and from one-another.
It's sadly far too complex to implement one set of laws for obvious reasons, so companies like NAI can cherry pick what they can get away with.