Labor/Employment
Apr. 5, 2023
Pilots aren’t ‘learned professionals’ under labor law
The law allows employers who require employees to obtain “an advanced academic degree as a standard if (if not universal) prerequisite” to avoid full compliance with minimum wage and overtime laws.
Most of them may have college degrees but airplane pilots are not “learned professionals” under the law, a federal judge ruled in San Francisco on Tuesday. Therefore, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., one of the world’s largest international airlines, can’t use that definition to dispose of a proposed wage and hour class action by its pilots.
The airline argued that the intellectual rigor of obtaining a pilot’s license should allow employers to...
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