AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER WORKFORCE.

SEC. 302. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER WORKFORCE. (a) Minimum Number of Air Traffic Controllers.— The Administrator shall hire such additional persons as are necessary to make the number of persons employed in the air traffic control workforce on September 30, 1988, not less than 15,900. (b) Air Traffic Control Workforce Defined.— For purposes of this section, the term “air traffic control workforce” means persons employed by the Federal Aviation Administration (including persons employed as traffic management coordinators and air traffic control first line supervisors) a substantial part of whose duties 101 STAT. 1525include separating and controlling air traffic. Such term does not include any air traffic assistant and any student at an air traffic control academy.