Presentation for BUS 356

1. IS THIS A LUXURY YOU
WANT TO BUY??
By Cameron McKee

2. FACTS
•Emirate, Etihad, and Qatar Airways
•Provide High-End Indulgences
•“Luxury on the backs of their employees”
•90% of their employees are migrants
•Trade unions are illegal in the UAE and Qatar
•Qatar Airways could “fire employees for
becoming pregnant, and prohibited marriage
without company permission”

3. GULF CARRIERS ARGUMENTS
•“Duty of Care” Argument
•Thousands of applications each year
•Consistently win excellence awards
•Claim complainers are a tiny fraction of
workforce

4. QUESTIONS
•Does demand for jobs make bad treatment
okay??
•Does Utilitarianism make airlines treatment
appropriate??
•If you had to choose an argument to present
to the airlines to influence change which
would you choose??

5. SOURCE
• Is This a Luxury You Want to Buy?? (7/17/2015 by Rob Bitton)
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-britton/is-this-a-luxury-you-want_b_7810644.html