The Supreme Court today rejected an appeal filed by EVA Airways Corp (長榮航空), upholding a decision made by the High Court last year that a flight attendant strike in 2019 was legal.
EVA flight attendant union members on April 19, 2019, voted to go on strike, after their representatives and the airline could not agree on improved salaries and working conditions.
Union members went on strike from June 20 to July 6 that year, when the two sides signed an agreement.
Photo: Taipei Times file photo
However, EVA Airways’ lawyers filed a lawsuit on the second day of the strike.
EVA Airways Corp claimed that the strike by unionized employees was illegal, seeking compensation from the Taoyuan Flight Attendants’ Union for daily financial losses of NT$34 million (US$1.04 million).
The Taipei District Court ruled that the strike was legal based on the Act for Settlement of Labor-Management Disputes (勞資爭議處理法) in the first trial in 2022.
EVA Airways Corp appealed the court’s decision and was rejected by the High Court in a second trial last year.
The High Court upheld the lower court’s decision that the union and its members do not have to pay the requested compensation.
The Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s decision today.
The ruling is final and cannot be appealed.
Additional reporting by Wen Yu-te and Jason Pan
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