Almost any planeload of airline passengers includes some people with urgent travel needs and others who may be more concerned about the cost of their tickets than about getting to their destination on time. DOT rules require airlines to seek out people who are willing to give up their seats for compensation before bumping anyone involuntarily. Here's how this works. At the check-in or boarding area, airline employees will look for volunteers when it appears that the flight has been oversold. If you're not in a rush to arrive at your next destination, you can give your reservation back to the airline in exchange for compensation and a later flight. But before you do this, you may want to get answers to these important questions:
The Air Carrier Access Act and the DOT rule that implements it set out procedures designed to ensure that individuals with disabilities have the same opportunity as anyone else to enjoy a pleasant flight. For information about these provisions, see the DOT publication New Horizons: Information for the Air Traveler With a Disability.
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Most if not all major airlines participate in frequent-traveler plans. These programs allow you to earn free trips, upgrades (e.g., from Coach to First Class) or other awards based on how often you fly on that airline or its partner carriers. In most programs you can also earn credit by using specified hotels, rental car companies, credit cards, etc. It doesn't cost anything to join a program, and you can enroll in the programs of any number of different airlines. However, you will want to determine which program best suits your needs before you accumulate a lot of miles. Here are some things to look at when selecting a frequent-traveler program.
Complaints from consumers help us spot problem areas and trends in the airline industry. We use our complaint files to document the need for changes in DOT's consumer protection regulations and, where warranted, as the basis for enforcement action (i.e., where a serious breach of the law has occurred). In addition, every month we publish a report with information about the number of complaints we receive about each airline and what problems people are having. You can find this Air Travel Consumer Report on our web site. That publication also has statistics that the airlines file with us on flight delays, oversales and mishandled baggage.
If nothing else works, small claims court might be the best way for you to help yourself. Many localities have these courts to settle disputes involving relatively small amounts of money and to reduce the red tape and expense that people generally fear when they sue someone. An airline can generally be sued in small claims court in any jurisdiction where it operates flights or does business. You can usually get the details of how to use the small claims court in your community by contacting your city or county office of consumer affairs, or the clerk of the court. As a rule, small claims court costs are low, you don't need a lawyer, and the procedures are much less formal and intimidating than they are in most other types of courts. See the DOT publication Tell It to the Judge.
Indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air; therefore, most HVAC system designers understand that increased amounts of outdoor air supply is generally better for IAQ. Yet there are concerns over the implications that this added amount of outdoor air supply has on the first cost and operating cost of the HVAC system, as well as moisture control for the school (too wet or too dry).
Charles, the president of a company that owns several gas stations, needs managers for the new convenience stores he has decided to add to the stations. He posts a job announcement at the Hindu Temple he attends expressing a preference for Hindu employees. In doing so, Charles is engaging in unlawful discrimination.[129]
The employee should generally be accommodated in his or her current position if doing so does not pose an undue hardship.[278] For example, if a pharmacist who has a religious objection to dispensing contraceptives can be accommodated without undue hardship by allowing the pharmacist to signal a coworker to assist customers with such prescriptions, the employer should not choose instead to accommodate by transferring the pharmacist to a different position. If no such accommodation is possible, the employer needs to consider whether lateral transfer is a possible accommodation.[279] The employer cannot transfer the pharmacist to a position that entails less pay, responsibility, or opportunity for advancement unless a lateral transfer is unavailable or would otherwise pose an undue hardship.[280]
If any employee needs to use a workplace facility as a reasonable accommodation, for example use of a quiet area for prayer during break time, the employer should accommodate the request under Title VII unless it would pose an undue hardship. If the employer allows employees to use the facilities at issue for non-religious activities not related to work, it may be difficult for the employer to demonstrate that allowing the facilities to be used in the same manner for religious activities is not a reasonable accommodation or poses an undue hardship.[289]
The guidance will maximize net benefits and reduce the burden on the public by clarifying the legal standards applicable to religious discrimination claims, presenting typical scenarios in which religious discrimination may arise, and providing guidance to employers on how to balance the needs of individuals in a diverse religious climate. The guidance is not being issued because of any retrospective review.
Comment: Numerous organizational and Congressional commenters asserted that there was insufficient opportunity for stakeholder consultation and inadequate time allotted for Commissioner and public input. These commenters requested that the Commission withdraw rather than finalize the proposed guidance. Several commenters also expressed concerns with listening sessions that the General Counsel held and the commenters felt that they undermined the comment period.
9/11 was a horrible tradegy perpretrated by religious extremists, but instead of the truth, we were given half-truths and lies that led to a war agains a country that had nothing to do with the attack. 10 years later, it is apparent our lawmakers continue to deceive and use our own fear to control and manipulate the public. Who can we trust, not the Congress, obviously, and certainly not the Supreme Court, both of whom seem to no longer represent a counry "of the people and by the people." Barbara - GA
We are destroying what our country stands for in the name of saving it. The Republicans are really good at framing things so that bad appears to be good and they have the best help money can buy to accomplish this. Cathy - HI
Jury nullification, the jury's right to vote their conscience is part of the safeguards that needs safe guarding now that america is taking political prisoners by naming civil disobedience as terrorism. Cheryl Sue - UT
When you have a RENEGADE federal government that has the attitude of Rahm Emanuel who said (in 2008): "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before" - then I believe that Rahm Emanuel was merely vocalizing the already widely held belief that was seized upon after the tragedy of September 11, 2001. I believe that 9/11 and the federal abuses of our rights and liberties since then have marked the greatest departure from our Constitution and the worst attack on our rights that have been perpetrated against the citizens of this once great Republic. If this downward spiral is NOT STOPPED and soon, then I believe that the current Police State we are now in will sink into a total Dictatorship. David - MA
I vow to help reclaim the standards of integrity, decency, free speech, and good will that the politicians have stolen from us with their scare tactics and their public behavior since 9/11. They are the real threats to our democracy and way of life. Elliott - MA
I have always thought that in our hysteria since 911 we, with our leaders fueling the flames, sacrificed much of what our republic stands for in the world: human rights above all else, freedoms guaranteed in our constitution, due process, privacy, and others. Emil - GA
Now reading MANUFACTURING HYSTERIA by Jay Feldman...I would say that most intelligent people would not buy into this but FEAR...government approved et al and its times or crisis, be it war, the economy or environmental et al...fear is used to manipulate the public...covertyl, overtly, by lies of omission, censorship, untruths, etc, etc. As I.F. Stone wrote ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE letting the public think wrong or directing them to think and act wrong for alterior motives and agendas by those in control and it ain't us. Frederick - MI
Never forget 9/11/2001. Never forget Bush at that instant: seven minutes of dumbfounded silence. Never forget the next-day words of Bush, "Go shopping", and EPA director Whitman, "The air is safe". Never forget "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US", the 8/6/2001 memo of actionable intelligence that Bush didn't act on, allowing thousands' deaths. Never forget where Bush invaded in response: Iraq, where Saddam truthfully denied WMD's -- not Afghanistan, where Osama went then and al-Qaeda still trains -- killing twice the Americans bin Laden did. Never forget the PATRIOT Act trampling the Constitution: warrantless wire-tapping, torture, detaining people without charges, etc., etc. Never forget two no-bid contracts: Cheney's with his KBR and Halliburton to get Iraq's oil, and Giuliani's with his Motorola buddies for the FDNY's and EMS's bad radios. Never forget on Election Day: these and other Republicans never got Osama; Democrat Obama did. J. Andrew - NJ
I never really understood how important the Constitution was until I lived next door to a public defender and he explained that all people have rights provided by the Constitution and what separates the USA from the other political systems is the reality of this document and how it applies to all. James - MI 2ff7e9595c
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