Employment Law/Labor Relations

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Post your thorough and complete answers to any two of the following scenarios.

SCENARIO-3
You are a pilot for a U.S. airline whose pilots are not represented by a union or working under a collective bargaining agreement. As a cost-saving measure, airline management decides to drop the pilots’ health insurance benefits.

  1. Can the company legally impose this change immediately and unilaterally, or is it required to first follow some specified procedure?
  2. Explain.

SCENARIO-5
If you are employed as a pilot by a U.S. company that is not an air carrier, is it to your advantage or disadvantage to be classified by the U.S. Department of Labor as a “learned professional”? Explain.

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