{"id":276839,"date":"2025-09-02T05:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-2-millon-labor-fines-retaliation-employees-pto\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:48:40","slug":"southwest-airlines-facing-over-2-million-in-labor-fines-for-retaliating-against-employees-taking-pto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=276839","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Facing Over $2 Million In Labor Fines For Retaliating Against Employees Taking PTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> is facing labor fines of over $2.3 million for retaliating against workers in Arizona for taking paid time off (PTO), that they earned. The workers reportedly began receiving retaliation letters after taking a certain number of days off, which the state says is against labor laws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge ruled against the airline in a paid time off dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,6451,5404,645,423,14016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-arizona","category-labor-agreement","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states","category-workers-unions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277149,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276839\/revisions\/277149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}