Originally Posted by
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Regardless of the 'laws' (or lack thereof) i'd still expect any large multinational organisation to exercise a 'duty of care' to it's employees. Who knows, maybe this crew member became inconsolable after the incident. And to be fair, the incident does sound pretty traumatic. She was abused verbally and physically. So the answer is to suspend her without pay...because it's legal to do that?
It's legal in the UK for me to up and leave my eight and a half month pregnant wife who does not work and our two year old child. Would that make it ok? No. Sometimes there is a moral obligation involved. Or in the case of business, a duty of care. Especially one (although based in the mid east) that wants to be admired on a world wide stage.
Before I get lynched, my reply was tongue in cheek. Though if you don't know about Mary Robinson, then fair enough.
In this particular instance, I believe its a case of lost in translation. I suspect the cabin crew is probably grounded to allow due process. She is probably being paid the base salary but not the additional add-on's they get as part of flying.
EDIT: Should also mention the comment about USA cabin crew was tongue in cheek too, since if you've travelled domestic there, you would realise how power hungry the cabin crews are and people have been offloaded because they didn't agree with the CC over trivial matters.