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[00:00.00]Easyjet has been under investigation here in France since 2006
从2006年起易捷航空在法国就一直成为被调查的对象 [00:05.09]when an inspection of their operations at Paris Orly airport
原因是当时一项在巴黎奥利机场的运转检查 [00:09.01]showed they'd failed to register
显示他们未能成功将170名职员 [00:10.64]170 employees to the French authorities.
向法国当局登记 [00:13.80]The budget airline is accused of breaking strict labour laws
这家价廉的航空公司因违背严格的劳动法法规而被控告 [00:17.61]and is now being pursued by the state prosecutor
同时它也正被州检察官催促上缴 [00:20.36]for millions of euros in unpaid social security
拖欠的几百万社会保险 [00:23.72]and health insurance contributions.
和健康保险缴款 [00:26.06]The budget airline insists
这家航空公司坚持声称 [00:27.93]that its staff were hired under British contracts
它的员工都通过英国合同建立雇佣关系 [00:30.23]and therefore were not subject to French rules.
因此无需受法国法律的支配 [00:32.97]Orly airport, it claims,
它补充说，奥利机场 [00:34.81]was merely a rest area for its workers
不过是它员工的休息场所 [00:37.00]and it was the planes themselves,
其实飞机本身而非法国 [00:38.88]and not France that served as their workplaces.
才是他们职员的工作场所 [00:41.43]The French authorities point out however
然而法国当局指出 [00:44.43]that most of the Easyjet staff lived
多数易捷航空职员在法国居住 [00:46.62]and paid their taxes in France
同时在此上交税款 [00:48.45]and many were working solely on internal flights between Paris and Nice.
并且不少职员仅在巴黎到尼斯这条往返国内航线上工作