Originally Posted by
Breaker11
And how long ago did you experience this? How can you tell that it is still like this now?
You must understand that it is a mathematical equation by an accountant who has a firm belief that the employment laws should not be there or should not apply to him. Why should he have to cover the medical treatments for a flight attendant who gets sick! An immediate checkride and she is no longer an employee. A suit is filed by the X employee who does not have the resources to see the suit through to the end, 12k settlement and it is over. Medical costs savings, 200k minus 12 in costs, minus 5k in attorney fees and profit of $183,000.
Until the costs of violating the laws exceed the savings, the behavior is not going to change. Delta cut its relationship because it was convinced it might come back to them in bad publicity. So TSA keeps the same "marching orders" as one VP of ops put it.