What companies pay extra for hours in a week worked over 40. I know some US States require it and others don't. One airport in NJ is home to two HAA helicopters where one company pays OT for over 40 hours and the other does not. I guess it's all in the interpretation of the law, and the fear that if we speak up we might lose that 7 on 7 off that we all love so much?

HAA is not an airline. What's the "good reason"?

it certainly can go down the 'state' road.  Depends on how hard issues are pushed.

PHI pilots have been using the offshore ting for decades to keep from paying state taxes. I have had an EMS job and an offshore that recognized my home state as Florida and I paid no state income tax. You are naive. Wrong, too.

states have their own interpetations

but the companies not taking taxes are in other states. Other states that have state income tax and the pilots are working there.

NY/NJ are both paid OT over 40 hours in a work week.  MTC work week is defined as Moday-Sunday.  Thursday is our day 1, so Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday end up being 48 hours in a week so 8 hours of OT.  Then the clock resets and our Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is only 36 hours no OT.  Its good but keep in mind not everytime you get a late flight and go over 84 hours is it going to be OT rate.  If I get a late flight in the second half of the week on the fresh pay period I'm 4 hours short of 40 hours so I've got 4 hours before it goes past regular rate and goes to OT rate.  Works well for us, we were also back paid for all unpaid OT going back a few years.  

states often make huge monetary tax descisions based on a flip of a coin

you think that matters

it's happening. You also are *probably* not a lawyer so who gives a sh*t what you think.

and it still doesn't matter

is the statute an air carrier? 

We went down the rabbit hole with Metro as mechanics. They changed our work schedules and only gave us 4 days off a month (usually none), and we never got paid for those extra days because they participated in "interstate commerce". Good luck and to hell with HEMS.

seems a little over the top, air carrier guy

etc, etc.

Interstate air commerce is regulated by Congress.   Since it is interstate, they can't have one State enacting laws and regulations effecting federally certified air carriers differently, because it creates an unfair competition and burdens the consumer in the end for price.

Congress gave air carriers the right to compete equally, not to have a State artificially jack up prices and effect services, or to tax (directly or indirectly) the air traveler (customer).  

49 USC 41713 clearly forbid States from effecting the price, route, or service provided by a federally certified air carrier.   A State dictating to an air carrier how it must pay it's pilots is effecting both price and service directly and indirectly.   This is strictly preempted!

49 USC 42112 clearly provide for the air carrier (not the State) to deal with its labor relations.   It is the duty of the air carrier, not the State, to provide compensations, workrules, and hours.   A State dictating to an air carrier requirements has usurped the authority of the air carrier (and Congress).   It also requires air carriers to comply with the Railway Labor Act for dealing with labor, and does not prescribe any State to act as a labor representative for any party.   IOWs, air carriers and pilots/copilots are exempt from any State laws dictating labor requiremens, since it all falls under the RLA.  And that protects the public because it creates a bargaining process, managed by the NMB, where interruptions in service are not created.   State required overtime (aka, >40 hrs) are not in the State's privvy to regulate!   Nor, is the maximum workhours, or how the air carrier pays its pilots.   That's why airlines pay its pilot for fligth hours, not actual hours, and have negotiated maximum scheduled hours, daily rigs, duty rigs, vacation schedules, overnight workrules, etc.   It would (does) hamper interstate air commerce if each State dictates its own rules all across this country (and beyond)

The FAA gives air carrier certificates to air carriers, not States, and burdens (requires) the air carrier to follow particular federal labor requirements to protect the travelling public, protect the labor force, and protect the air carrier itself.   The FAA does not certify States to act in that capacity or to intercede on the Fed's authority!

 

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