Costco Cleared on Discrimination Claims of Worker With Tourette’s

Costco Wholesale Corp. won’t have to stand trial on the disability bias and retaliation claims of a longtime employee who has Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder (Fox v. Costco Wholesale Corp., 2017 BL 68220, E.D.N.Y., No. 15-439, 3/6/17).

Christopher Fox, a greeter and assistant cashier at a Costco warehouse in Holbrook, N.Y., said co-workers harassed him because of his disabilities and that he was retaliated against for sending an email to Costco’s chief executive officer complaining about the behavior.

But the alleged derogatory comments and behavior don’t rise to the level of “severe or pervasive” harassment that ...