Boeing Ex-Worker Gets Trial on Whether Sleep Issues Accommodated

Boeing Co. may have violated disability bias law when it placed a new employee who allegedly couldn’t work the graveyard shift because of an undiagnosed sleep disorder on unpaid leave, a Seattle federal judge ruled.

According to Andrew Bell, the company never made any effort to move him into a different job that would have allowed him to avoid working an overnight shift after initially keeping him on an earlier shift for 30 days.

A jury could agree unpaid leave was an unreasonable accommodation under Washington’s Law Against Discrimination and that Bell could have been transferred to a different job ...