ConocoPhillips Worker Who Lost Visa Not Fired Out of Bias

A drilling engineer who was fired by ConocoPhillips Co. after his visa to work in Australia wasn’t renewed lacks national origin bias and severance benefits claims, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

Samuel Gonzales failed to show he wasn’t absent without leave from April 1, 2016, through June 24, 2016, after the expiration of the paid leave the company put him on following the loss of his visa, the court said April 3. He also failed to show he could have performed his job duties from the immigration detention center the Australian government placed him in after denying his application to renew ...