SCOTUSblog

Are airline cargo loaders engaged in interstate commerce? The answer has high stakes for forced arbitration.

Like many cases involving the Federal Arbitration Act, Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon began with an employment dispute: Southwest employee Latrice Saxon believed she was owed overtime pay. On behalf ...
SCOTUSblog

Cargo loaders are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, but important questions remain

Latrice Saxon’s job includes loading cargo onto airplanes – but does that mean that she is part of a “class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce”? The answer to that question is ...
JD Supra

US Supreme Court Holds That Airline Cargo Loaders Are Exempt From Arbitration

The US Supreme Court has held that airline cargo loaders who load and unload cargo from planes that travel across state lines are exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) because they belong to a ...
JD Supra

The Supreme Court Finds Airplane ‎Cargo Loaders Are Exempt from Arbitration Proceedings

Note: This QuickStudy provides an update to a May 2022 Labor & Employment Workforce Watch article addressing the same topic. In an 8–0 decision, the Supreme Court held that a ramp agent supervisor ...
Business Wire

Highly anticipated professional cargo hub airport in central China’s Hubei is officially open

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ezhou Huahu Airport in Ezhou city, central China’s Hubei province, which is the first professional cargo hub airport in Asia and the fourth of its kind in the world, ...