Southwest Asks High Court To Take Up FAA Cargo Loaders Exemption Question

Mealey's (September 9, 2021, 7:32 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 27 petition for a writ of certiorari, Southwest Airlines Co. asks the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether airplane cargo loaders and ramp supervisors are engaged in interstate commerce and are thus transportation workers exempted from the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) after the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded in March that they were exempt....