Arbitrator Upholds Airline's Right to Assign Flight Attendants in Special Circumstances.JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK, FAA LID: JFK , NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999-- Flight Attendant Loses Two Months Pay for Refusing Assignment Tower Air, Inc. (Nasdaq: TOWR) today announced an arbitrator's consent award which upholds the airline's right to assign flight attendants to flights on their guaranteed days off (GDO GDO Garage Door Opener GDO Grid Dip Oscillator GDO General Development Order GDO Gross Domestic Output GDO Group Duty Officer GDO Guaranteed Day Off GDO Goal Driven Optimization GDO Global Development Organization GDO Greg Denard Orchestras GDO Global Data Object ) in circumstances of operational necessity. The decision consent award will remain binding pending a future arbitration of the contract provisions pertaining to flight attendant's guaranteed days off. The arbitrator also ruled that flight attendant Jason Weber shall be reinstated to his position with the company immediately but that the period from his termination on April 21, 1999 through today's arbitration shall be considered to be an unpaid leave. Weber was terminated for insubordination in·sub·or·di·nate adj. Not submissive to authority: has a history of insubordinate behavior. in when he refused a direct order from the company's Vice-President of Flight Operations to operate a legal extension of a Tower Air Flight. Tower Air is one of the busiest carriers at New York's John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in Airport and flies scheduled service from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Athens, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, San Francisco, San Juan, Santo Domingo and Tel Aviv as well as service between Tel Aviv and both Athens and Paris. Respected for its excellent travel value, Tower Air offers passengers low, unrestricted fares on every flight and every route. The airline also flies passenger charter and cargo flights globally. |
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