Kip Powick Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Senior Pilots Coalition plans to challenge new law A coalition of the nation's senior airline pilots says it will challenge a controversial new law that extends the retirement age for pilots from 60 to 65. The Senior Pilots Coalition -- a national organization formed to end what it says is age discrimination in the U.S. commercial airline industry -- will file to have the law declared null and void, said the group's attorney, Jonathan Turley. He serves as the J.B. and Maurice Shapiro professor of public interest law at the George Washington University Law School. The act has been roundly criticized by many pilots, including the Allied Pilots Association, a union representing 12,000 pilots at Fort Worth-based American Airlines Inc. The Senior Pilots Coalition said it takes issue with a number of aspects of the act, including wording that decrees flights with a pilot in command older than age 60 must have a pilot who has not yet reached age 60 assigned to the flight-deck crew, and pilots who turned 60 prior to Dec. 13 cannot continue to serve in that role unless the carrier treats the person as a new hire. "The new law is poorly written and expressly denies carriers the right to treat older pilots fairly, even countermanding prior contractual positions between pilots and their companies," said a coalition statement. The Air Line Pilots Association International, a union representing 60,000 pilots in the U.S. and Canada, support the act, saying previously that "it will protect the piloting profession." http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/...21/daily11.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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