The first notices of termination are now being handed out at Lauda headquarters. Even pregnant women, who are actually protected, are affected. The company is suing for approval at the Korneuburg Regional Court. The parent company is simultaneously celebrating the start of 64 additional routes. While Ryanair is celebrating the start of 64 "new" routes from Vienna in a press release, notices of termination are being handed out at the headquarters of the Austrian subsidiary Lauda. The ground staff will reportedly be reduced to a small number of employees who are necessary to provide ACMI services for Ryanair. Lauda Managing Director Andreas Gruber has repeatedly made no comment on the terminations that are now actually being announced and has always referred to the early registration with the employment service made a few weeks ago and the press release from last week. On Thursday, a questionable incident is said to have occurred at Lauda headquarters, as a pregnant employee was handed a letter of termination and then asked to leave the office. Actually, this employee would be protected from dismissal by the Maternity Protection Act, but according to reports, this does not seem to have been taken so seriously. Lauda is also suing the Korneuburg Regional Court for approval of dismissal in at least 25 other cases that fall under the Maternity Protection Act. These are pregnant women and women on maternity leave who are part of the flight crew. In the "first wave of dismissals", at least 15 Lauda employees at the head office in Schwechat are said to have been "affected". They were released from work with immediate effect. Various professional groups are affected, and the Austrian Ryanair subsidiary even parted ways with the press office. Pregnant women and women on maternity leave are to be dismissed The