bocastephen

If they are an essential service and their absences were unexcused, then it's up to DHS and its HR group to take the necessary action against those employees. I don't condone what they did...in a way I understand it, but truth be told, their actions could have placed thousands of other people at risk. When they signed their employment contracts, if they were told they were an essential service and expected to report to work regardless of prevailing emergency conditions, and failed to do so, then whatever punitive policy exists at DHS should be enforced against them.

I was just stating in my original post that what happened at IAH was no really CO's fault, and I am sure they blasted the IAH FSD pretty good over it. What happens next is between the missing screeners and DHS management (now there is oxymoron).