• jkmooney@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The CEO was very careful to skirt applicable regulatory laws. He even called his passengers “crew members”. In the aviation world, I have some experience harmonizing multiple regulatory authorities. Because of “international waters”, there will need to be some agreement and harmonizing of regulations. There’s already SOLAS so, I think it can be done.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
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      A “crew member” would be some kind of employee.

      Employees don’t pay a company a quarter of a million dollars to do “work” for eight hours. You don’t pay to work, you get payed to work.

      Just because you call someone a crew member doesn’t necessarily mean that would hold up in a court of law.

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        Technically I believe they were classified as employees that “donated” to the company. Nice workaround Stockton! Let’s see how that holds up in court with the obvious gross negligence.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      Absolutely.

      The issue is that the regulations that do exist allow them to skirt it by not offering a hard, and broad, definitions of ‘tourist subs’.