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Skycaps sue over lost tips
Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, May 9, 2008
Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D1
US Airways skycaps at Sacramento International Airport are part of a suit seeking class-action status that alleges the airline, based in Tempe, Ariz., and its contractor have violated federal minimum wage law.
The suit, filed April 11 in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, claims US Airways' year-old $2 curbside luggage check-in fee drastically cut into skycaps' tips, leaving some earning less than $3 an hour. The skycaps are employees of the airline's contractor, Prime Flight Aviation Services Inc., which should have boosted the skycaps' base pay but didn't, the suit alleges.
Skycaps are losing up to $80 a day in Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other airports around the country where US Airways charges the fee, according to lawyers representing the workers. They are seeking reimbursement of all the money they weren't paid as a result of the fee.
American Airlines last month lost a similar lawsuit after a jury found in favor of nine skycaps at Boston's Logan International Airport who also claimed they lost income because of a curbside charge. They were awarded $325,000.
US Airways spokesman Morgan Durrant declined to comment on the lawsuit "other than to mention that the skycaps in the lawsuit aren't employed by US Airways."
– Jon Ortiz
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