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| [00:00.00] | Easyjet has been under investigation here in France since 2006 |
| [00:05.09] | when an inspection of their operations at Paris Orly airport |
| [00:09.01] | showed they'd failed to register |
| [00:10.64] | 170 employees to the French authorities. |
| [00:13.80] | The budget airline is accused of breaking strict labour laws |
| [00:17.61] | and is now being pursued by the state prosecutor |
| [00:20.36] | for millions of euros in unpaid social security |
| [00:23.72] | and health insurance contributions. |
| [00:26.06] | The budget airline insists |
| [00:27.93] | that its staff were hired under British contracts |
| [00:30.23] | and therefore were not subject to French rules. |
| [00:32.97] | Orly airport, it claims, |
| [00:34.81] | was merely a rest area for its workers |
| [00:37.00] | and it was the planes themselves, |
| [00:38.88] | and not France that served as their workplaces. |
| [00:41.43] | The French authorities point out however |
| [00:44.43] | that most of the Easyjet staff lived |
| [00:46.62] | and paid their taxes in France |
| [00:48.45] | and many were working solely on internal flights between Paris and Nice. |
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