Originally Posted by
HotDogWater
This law is ridiculous to begin with. So any flight out of California is supposed to land after 5 hours or whatever it is to give everyone a break? How would you do any flights heading over the Pacific, the law as it supposedly reads mean they have to be free to get off the plane.
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_MealPeriods.html
FTA, here is the part of the law that Alaska Airlines doesn't want people to read:
If an employer fails to provide an employee a meal period in accordance with an applicable IWC Order, the employer must pay one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of pay for each workday that the meal period is not provided.
This is not an issue of logistics. This is not an issue of CA crews no longer being able to fly long legs. This is not an issue of having to staff flights with additional crewmembers, or having to land mid-transcon to let the crew off, etc, etc. This is an issue of Alaska Airlines not wanting to incur the cost of having to pay a handful of people on a handful of flights on a handful of days
one extra hour of pay.
It's truly in character for Alaska Airlines to not only be indignantly opposed to having to pay the cost of doing business, but to also obfuscate the truth and completely misrepresent the situation.