Buying a few houses to house staff when people here don’t have the skills required for these aviation positions my company has done the same. The issue is vulture funds buying 20 to 40 house to fleece the renter and give no benefit to anyone here and all the money leaves the country.
People are living in the houses. What’s the problem?
We all know who’s to blame and its not a boss trying to find a solution to a disastrous housing crisis.
He is looking after the business and that’s more than most employers do. It’s and asset that they can sell and rent at will, brilliant move.
The same politicians who allow it to happen. Talk is cheap
He’s entirely correct. The housing shortage isn’t MOL’s fault, or problem.
It’s the governments failed housing policies that are to blame
I can’t stand O’Leary but I don’t really see him being too wrong here. Sure it can seem distasteful at least he’s doing something for his workers job conditions (which are still all-in-all pretty terrible I’ve heard). Plenty of other companies do the same worldwide.
The bigger issue is always housing policy for the general market and that doesn’t seem to be improving much at all given the recent report of the minimum combined salaries to secure a house (which didn’t even take into account the time to save money for a deposit).
Keep wages low strategy , moves new batch of workers in every year , train them up watch some quite when they realise they won’t be able to afford to live off their salary at the end and repeat
I don’t see much of an issue here to be honest it’s fairly forward thinking. Hse definitely does similar
Companies shouldn’t have to buy housing for staff. It’s the government’s fault that they had to do it.
And so say all of us.
People here calling Ryanair a good employer lol
The only issue with this is having your housing tied to your job is super fucking stressful. Lose your job and lose your house. Have an issue with the property? Nice, can’t kick up a fuss because your boss is your landlord.
Fine Gael bringing back victoriana era company towns.
What is wrong with this: All potential mortgage holders now have to compete against Corporate Loans + Profits.
Which, obviously, nobody can compete with: House prices will accelerate further, and only companies + finance firms will afford houses.
“You will own nothing and be happy.”
How is this any different than the council buying houses?
Housing AND Ryanair combined into one post. r/Ireland 9/11
This is what happens when you commodify housing. I’m sure that RyanAir will enjoy a rewarding future in property investment.
Your employer being your landlord is one of the most casually dystopian things i can think of but the government have fucked things so badly i cant fault this at all.
As much as I detest that prick O’ Leary, it’s not him who’s responsible for the shit show that is our housing crisis. Its those thst allow a prick like him to bulk buy a housing estate.
It’s Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and their successive governments in recent years that has destroyed the housing market correct, and it’s opportunists like Michael O’Leary that will use that to their advantage by eventually trying to tie people’s housing situations directly to their job like is allowed in the US.
The man will do anything for his financial bottom line, and if that involves forcing people to stay in a job longer than they wish because it’s tied to the gaff they stay in, then he’s going to take that opportunity.
The difference between the private and public sector at work. Solve the problem with no messing around, and move on.
For the people complaining about companies competing, we already have various taxpayer-funded NGOs and local government competing with each other using our own fucking money to outbid us and drive up prices. Completely unfair on workers.
His workers need houses, the political parties all want the price of houses to keep rising. So it’s even a good investment from the companies point of view. Maybe the local authority should have looked to build more housing units to meet future demand, including for the drivers of employment in the area. In mean that is something within the power of local politicians.
There was a very interesting moment in this interview. O’Leary criticised Eamon Ryan during the interview, and described him as incompetent. Claire immediately pushed back, and advised that the Minister was “clearly not incompetent”.
RTE and the licence fee has been in the news a lot lately, and much of the narrative on here in support of RTE, saying how important it was for an independent public broadcaster. How do comments like that square with that narrative?
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i mean their not the first company to do to this , where was people outrage then ?
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/firms-buying-up-homes-in-attempt-to-secure-workers-amid-housing-crisis/
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30953318.html
24 years ago it was a thing https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/firms-buying-up-homes-to-house-staff/26149986.html
Buying a few houses to house staff when people here don’t have the skills required for these aviation positions my company has done the same. The issue is vulture funds buying 20 to 40 house to fleece the renter and give no benefit to anyone here and all the money leaves the country.
People are living in the houses. What’s the problem?
We all know who’s to blame and its not a boss trying to find a solution to a disastrous housing crisis.
He is looking after the business and that’s more than most employers do. It’s and asset that they can sell and rent at will, brilliant move.
The same politicians who allow it to happen. Talk is cheap
He’s entirely correct. The housing shortage isn’t MOL’s fault, or problem.
It’s the governments failed housing policies that are to blame
I can’t stand O’Leary but I don’t really see him being too wrong here. Sure it can seem distasteful at least he’s doing something for his workers job conditions (which are still all-in-all pretty terrible I’ve heard). Plenty of other companies do the same worldwide.
The bigger issue is always housing policy for the general market and that doesn’t seem to be improving much at all given the recent report of the minimum combined salaries to secure a house (which didn’t even take into account the time to save money for a deposit).
Keep wages low strategy , moves new batch of workers in every year , train them up watch some quite when they realise they won’t be able to afford to live off their salary at the end and repeat
I don’t see much of an issue here to be honest it’s fairly forward thinking. Hse definitely does similar
Companies shouldn’t have to buy housing for staff. It’s the government’s fault that they had to do it.
And so say all of us.
People here calling Ryanair a good employer lol
The only issue with this is having your housing tied to your job is super fucking stressful. Lose your job and lose your house. Have an issue with the property? Nice, can’t kick up a fuss because your boss is your landlord.
Fine Gael bringing back victoriana era company towns.
What is wrong with this: All potential mortgage holders now have to compete against Corporate Loans + Profits.
Which, obviously, nobody can compete with: House prices will accelerate further, and only companies + finance firms will afford houses.
“You will own nothing and be happy.”
How is this any different than the council buying houses?
Housing AND Ryanair combined into one post. r/Ireland 9/11
This is what happens when you commodify housing. I’m sure that RyanAir will enjoy a rewarding future in property investment.
Your employer being your landlord is one of the most casually dystopian things i can think of but the government have fucked things so badly i cant fault this at all.
As much as I detest that prick O’ Leary, it’s not him who’s responsible for the shit show that is our housing crisis. Its those thst allow a prick like him to bulk buy a housing estate.
It’s Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and their successive governments in recent years that has destroyed the housing market correct, and it’s opportunists like Michael O’Leary that will use that to their advantage by eventually trying to tie people’s housing situations directly to their job like is allowed in the US.
The man will do anything for his financial bottom line, and if that involves forcing people to stay in a job longer than they wish because it’s tied to the gaff they stay in, then he’s going to take that opportunity.
The difference between the private and public sector at work. Solve the problem with no messing around, and move on.
For the people complaining about companies competing, we already have various taxpayer-funded NGOs and local government competing with each other using our own fucking money to outbid us and drive up prices. Completely unfair on workers.
His workers need houses, the political parties all want the price of houses to keep rising. So it’s even a good investment from the companies point of view. Maybe the local authority should have looked to build more housing units to meet future demand, including for the drivers of employment in the area. In mean that is something within the power of local politicians.
There was a very interesting moment in this interview. O’Leary criticised Eamon Ryan during the interview, and described him as incompetent. Claire immediately pushed back, and advised that the Minister was “clearly not incompetent”.
RTE and the licence fee has been in the news a lot lately, and much of the narrative on here in support of RTE, saying how important it was for an independent public broadcaster. How do comments like that square with that narrative?