Southwest Airlines
Air travel
This edition records the findings that can be supported and leaves the remaining indicators unrated. An overall score requires all fifteen indicators; unrated does not mean zero.
Ratified agreements and employee programmes continue to support voice and wellbeing. Completed corporate job reductions weaken employment security, with severance and related payments providing documented mitigation.
Scope: Southwest Airlines employees, including the distinct corporate workforce affected by 2025 restructuring and union-represented workgroups; this is not a customer-satisfaction rating.
Scope, period & review disclosure
Southwest Airlines employees, including the distinct corporate workforce affected by 2025 restructuring and union-represented workgroups; this is not a customer-satisfaction rating.
Calendar 2025 workforce disclosures and current employee-support page; reviewed 14 September 2026 Indicator reassessment: 15 September 2026; earlier observation periods are retained.
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Corporate job losses do not describe every employee: total active full-time-equivalent headcount rose slightly in 2025. The $62 million combines severance and related professional fees, not a pure employee-benefit total. Ratification and support do not establish individual outcomes. Passenger-service orders were checked separately and are outside these employee findings. This edition assesses fifteen distinct indicators. Sources do not establish every indicator; incomplete dimensions and the overall total remain unrated. Different populations within the report are identified in individual findings and must not be treated as interchangeable.
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- Contrary-evidence search was targeted, not systematic.
- Some evidence is historical or its observation date is not established.
- Fewer than three dimensions have independent evidence.
Compare similar populations, activities and periods. This review may miss harm that was not identified in the sources.
Sources you can inspect.
- Southwest: 2025 Form 10-K, Human Capital ↗
Company disclosure
- Southwest: Our People ↗
Company disclosure
- AMFA: Southwest AMT negotiations update ↗
Worker or union source
Source relationship: AMFA represents mechanics and is a bargaining party; negotiations do not establish a ratified new contract.
Score history.
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Sep 15, 2026
Not scoredReviewed · Latest edition
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60/100Reviewed · Previous edition
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64/100Reviewed · Previous edition
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64/100Published · Previous edition
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