Not sure how many people read the article but it seems the point was the airline made a mistake (or at least, may have), banned her without an investigation and then unbanned her. Also, she made $1k+ posting about it on social media.
This video is breaking my small brain because my two dogs are named Motley and Waylon.
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Are they professionals?
Why does that matter? At least in Canada it is illegal to have someone work hours they are not paid for unless they are salary.
I could be wrong but I think that courts are generally pretty respectful of collective bargaining agreements, which is where this pay structure come from.
Arenât there regulations around how many hours can be worked by airline crews as well, I imagine those are based on the time in air and make it difficult to change?
Yes, thatâs definitely true, and all part of the collective bargaining package. So itâs not really as simple as âairline crews donât get paid for that timeâ and then everything else is just like regular employment, in theory at least theyâre giving that up in exchange for something else.
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In the US if you are a professional, then you are often (but not necessarily) on salary, and there are all sorts of things that may be related to your job that you are not directly paid for. I donât think that protections for hourly wage workers apply to professionals. If the professional is not salaried, then often there will be some sort of contract which works out the details.
I guess if there is some lawbro around that has knowledge of this stuff, they can clear it up for us.
If this was collectively bargained for, I have to assume that theyâre not idiots and got a high enough wage for flight hours to offset their waiting in the vast majority of cases. Obviously there will be some outliar cases where the flight attendant will get fucked, but it seems completely reasonable that they would be willing to accept a risk of that for a higher inflight wage.
The example I was reading they were paid hourly not salary.
Professionals can enter in to an hourly payment agreement, but they still (I think) wouldnât be afforded the same protections as someone working minimum wage at McDonalds.
The fudging is in what actually counts as work. Lots of hourly jobs have some kind of unpaid time they call training or waiting or something.
Yeah, I get that. My point was that if someone is a professional you can worry less about legal problems when fuck them over on those kinds of things than if they are not a professional.
OK the thing here that jumped out at me is
The family of âDatelineâ correspondent Keith Morrison, who is Perryâs stepfather, said in a statement that they welcomed the news of the law enforcement action.
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Absolutely huge Keith Morrison fan and I hope he covers this story for his Dateline swan song.
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There are federal regulations limiting both time in the air and time on duty with required rest periods. Theyâre unrelated to pay. You have to comply with the federal regulations obviously then your pay is determined however youâve agreed to be paid.
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What is this? Letters to Penthouse
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