Case: Labor Relations/Federal Preemption (E.D. Pa.)

American Airlines avoided trial on a Jamaican-American former fleet agent’s claims that he was fired in retaliation for complaining about discrimination two years earlier, a federal court ruled. The fleet agent was working under a last chance agreement that settled his prior bias complaint, and he also couldn’t pursue his claim that the airline breached the agreement, the court said, because it was preempted by the Railway Labor Act. The agent needed additional evidence to prove a causal link on his retaliatory discharge claims because the temporal gap between his bias complaint and his second termination was too long by ...