Alaska Airlines won’t be able to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that federal labor law takes precedence over a Washington state law that allows workers to use earned leave to care for a sick family member.
A decision in the case could have affected every industry in which workers are governed by collective bargaining agreements and also protected by state leave laws, Alaska Airlines argued in a petition for high court review denied April 1.
In August, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 6-5 that flight attendant Laura Masserant, a member of the Association ...