Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has also issued drug-testing regulations, similar to those issued by the DOT, covering airline flight personnel. ... Alertness and sobriety are, of course, imperative for certain occupations, such as train engineers, airline pilots, truck drivers and others. ... Take the example of an airplane pilot or a bus driver. ... Pilots have crewmembers as well as a significantly large number of passengers on many occasions, who heed to arrive to their destination safely. ... There has never been a commercial airline accident linked to pilot drug use. ...

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There are several types of leave such as job-protected leave, paid and unpaid leave, military leave, regular FMLA, and airline flight crew special leave. ... The FMLA provides special rules for determining the eligibility of airline flight crews. ... This includes pilots, flight attendants, and other crewmembers. The Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act of 2009 changed the way hours of work are calculated for airline flight crews. ... The Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act (AFCTCA) amended the FMLA as it applies to airline flight crews. ...

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Some pilots and surgeons have been working for ten, fifteen, even twenty years with outstanding results in service. ... DesJardins and Duska make a good point by saying, "Presuming that every airline pilot is equally threatening is to deny individual the respect that they deserve as autonomous, rational agents." "It is the likelihood of causing harm, and not the fact of being an airline pilot per se, that is relevant in deciding which employees in critical job to test." ...

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United Airlines, the Court rejected the arguments on behalf of Suttons that "they were regarded as disabled because they were precluded from engaging in the major life activity of working in the job of global airline pilot", which it considered a class of employment (Jentz, Miller, 2003, p. 938-939). ...

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