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PHOENIX — Southwest Airlines was hit with more state labor fines this week after workers say the company retaliated against them for taking their earned sick time.
The warnings said the workers were taking excessive absences and that further absences may result in termination. “We work a lot outside,” he said. “We’re working with our hands up above our heads for many hours. We’re on our knees crawling into tight spaces.”“They're just asking to use their earned benefit,” he said.
Industrial Commission Chairman Dennis Kavanaugh noted that the employee had been with the airline for more than 25 years and “is about 66 years old and at least in part the sick time he was claiming he was out due to COVID.”“You have many companies out there also saying, ‘Don't come to work if you're sick.’ But then if you call in sick, you're gonna get in trouble. It's a weird pickle that they're putting us in on something that we earned.
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