Originally Posted by
Jay1122
Thanks for info, I think I gotcha. Basically it's a way for the regionals to offer "more" pay without having to commit to a higher pay scale for the long haul and without having to negotiate the contract with the unions. Does that really make it illegal or just unethical?
To my follow-on question, is there anything that prevents one from just taking the bonus and never showing up? Is that similarly unethical? Has any one ops tested this? Just curious on folk's thoughts.
Originally Posted by Jay1122
@Griever, can you fill me in on the illegality of offering this bonus? Thanks!
I think others have touched on this, above. I may have called it illegal, which you can take for hyperbole if you wish, but if a guy can be certain of anything, it is that this will have a cease and desist order issued while the courts listen to each side of the case. Then, in within a year they will give a ruling declaring this a violation of the law.
The contextual info surrounding whether this is legal or not is all a judge will need to decide if this is illegal. When they subpoena the bargaining notes from our 2016 contract negotiations and see that this was brought up then, when they hear deposition from some of the new hires that accepted this bonus, when they use analogous thought to rationalize how this could be applied in other cases of contract law, I don't believe the judge will rule in QX's favor on this.
The only question is how there will be remedy applied.