and that's wrong, I was always paid out from first day of illness. You are correct in saying that it is a landslide ruling which Ryanair is trying to minimise now in order to reduce the "fall out". I belive it's a good ruling that will work in favour of many employees in many companies around europe, depending on where they are based. The social security system in Belgium is extremely good, as in the netherlands, france, germany, etc... People based in eastern europe will actually lose a lot of their proctections currently governed by the Irish contract.
And ITR, seems like a very bitter pill to swallow that your company is using the same practices that you've condemned here on the forum multiple times when asking for a level playing field. Shame that you always (together with some others) have to play the man rather than the ball