Frontier Airlines, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

BABCOCK, Judge.

In this consolidated proceeding, Frontier Airlines seeks review of the Industrial Commission’s orders awarding full unemployment compensation benefits to three flight attendants (claimants) on maternity leave. We affirm.

Frontier’s policy mandates maternity leave after a flight attendant reaches her twenty-seventh week of pregnancy. After the attendant has exhausted her accumulated sick leave, maternity leave is unpaid. Each claimant applied for unemployment benefits commencing in her twenty-eighth week of pregnancy. Each testified that she was available for work in related…