Master Executive Council (MEC)
- AFA Alaska leadership is participating in the Company’s webcasts today about California meal and rest break laws.
- It is extremely premature and unnecessarily anxiety-provoking to suggest that downsizing or closing California domiciles is anything but a worst-case scenario.
- Management is mischaracterizing AFA’s involvement in the Bernstein v. Virgin America case. The MEC will communicate more details tomorrow after coordinating with the AFA International officers and with AFA Legal.
Alaska Airlines management is hosting a morning and afternoon webcast session today for the Inflight division about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision on Bernstein v. Virgin America, the implications for California meal and rest break laws, and management’s plans to comply with the law. AFA Alaska leadership is participating in both sessions and based on this morning’s session alone we will definitely share a different perspective with our members than that being offered by management.
In the meantime, we offer these initial observations/opinions:
(1) It is extremely premature and unnecessarily anxiety-provoking of management to suggest that downsizing or closing California domiciles is anything but a worst-case scenario when the reality is that it’s anyone’s guess what actual compliance with the law will look like; and
(2) Management is mischaracterizing AFA’s involvement in the Bernstein v. Virgin America case.
The MEC will communicate more details tomorrow after coordinating with the AFA International officers and with AFA Legal.