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OSHA Orders Airtran Airways To Reinstate Pilot Under The Whistleblower Act
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines Co., to reinstate a former pilot who was fired after reporting numerous mechanical concerns. The agency also has ordered that the pilot be paid more than $1 million in back wages (avstop.com) Mehr...
Did they really think they would get by with it?
Of course they did...they figured that 4 1/2 years dragging it out, they would bleed him out. Hopefully, they will award legal fees etc as well. It may not be over for the airline if the reported mechanical problems were ignored...there are probably four or five more agencies waiting for them.
And now SWA has inherited all this.wonderful. Reckon AirTrans was able to hide this as pending or cast it in a "don't worry about it attitude" when they got bought out.
I guess it could go to excess but why does a whistleblower have to go through this in the first place. Looks like OSHA or somebody could get into something like this on the front end, then again, even if they did, I don't know if I would like to work at a place with that back there, so I dunno.
Getting reinstated could make work time uncomfortable. On the other hand he may now be almost untouchable.
The guy had to eat for all this time so probably has another job. Look for a lump sum settlement and for the airline to "buy back" the job to his age 60. We should hope he is 32....would be funny if he had gotten a job at SWA.
lol.
“Darn that Kenyan Atheist Islamic Socialist Obama! More job-killing regulation is all we need. If airlines want to fire people who report safety concerns, the market will sort it out after a few dozen crashes, so why intervene???
“The market will sort it out after a few dozen crashes, so why intervene???”
Lets hope you never control OSHA