I need help with the following involving Aviation Law.

Labor and Employment Law

Question:

• May an employer lawfully give preference to a younger person over an equally qualified older person in hiring, compensation, and advancement?

Airline Labor Law

Scenario for Question

A particular airline employee is generally disliked by everyone in the company, labor and management alike. One day the employee violates a company rule and is fired. The employee files a grievance with the System Board of Adjustment under the provisions of the union contract with the company. You are one of the union representatives on the System Board. You and the other union member of the board are walking down the hall in the company's offices when one of the company's representatives on the board calls you into his office. The other company member of the board is already there. Closing the door behind you, one of the company board members says: "As long as we are all here, why don't we have a quick System Board meeting and dispense with that grievance?"

Question:

• If the grievance is decided at this impromptu meeting, without notice to the employee. Is there anything the employee can act about it? Describe.