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Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation

Aug. 17, 2022

500 former JetBlue flight attendants settle labor lawsuit for $3.6M

Once one of the few non-unionized flight attendants groups in the airline industry, the plaintiffs said they were being paid less than $9 an hour.

Some 500 former JetBlue flight attendants and the state’s labor agency have agreed with the airline to settle for $3.6 million a seven-year-old lawsuit that argued they had to do some work without pay.

“The settlement is an excellent result for the class and the Labor Workforce Development Agency after years of litigation,” plaintiffs’ attorneys Matthew C. Helland and Daniel Brome of Nichols Kaster LLP wrote in an Aug. 12 motion for approv...

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