The FMLA is a labor law allowing an employee to take job-protected unpaid leave due to a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform his or her job, to care for a sick family member, or to care for a new child (including by birth, adoption or foster care). The FMLA is administered by the Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division within the U.S. Department of Labor.
President Obama recently signed into law, an amendment to the FMLA to include airline crews. That's fantastic, however, I must say, it's really damn sad that it's taken this long. (FMLA was first signed into law back in 1993.) You know damn well everyone up the management chain at an airline has had the FMLA apply to them. But according to these management figures, the people actually making the airline run can't be treated like human beings. All that matters is "schedule integrity."
Let's hope this is one of many steps to start having airline pilots and flight attendants treated more like actual human beings with families of their own rather than just pawns pushed around by overpaid and under performing airline upper management.
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