At a Dec. 10 hearing in DiFiore v. American Airlines Inc., a 1st Circuit panel considered the airline’s appeal of a $325,000 jury award to nine Boston skycaps — luggage handlers — who claimed American’s $2 per bag curbside check-in fee at Logan Airport violated Massachusetts’ tips statute. The jury found that American Airlines violated the tips law because it was collecting a service charge that it did not pass on to the skycaps.
The skycaps, including Don DiFiore, are cross-appealing the district court’s refusal to triple the jury’s damages award under a 2008 Massachusetts state law change calling for mandatory trebling of court damages for Massachusetts wage law violations.
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