Eastern Airlines LLC and two company executives allegedly fired a single mom who requested leave under the federal coronavirus relief law after her son’s school closed, according to a lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Stephanie Jones, the airline’s former director of revenue management, said in a complaint filed Tuesday that her repeated inquiries and requests for paid family leave benefits under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law 116-127) led CEO Steve Harfst and executive Joseph Marotta to fire her.
The lawsuit may be one of the first filed accusing an employer of violating ...
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