Hawaiian Airlines Evades Workers’ Vaccine Religious-Bias Claims

Hawaiian Airlines Inc. defeated the last claims remaining in a lawsuit alleging it discriminated against workers when it denied their requests for religious accommodations to the company’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

The workers argued that allowing them to skip vaccination wouldn’t have cost the airline money or posed health and safety costs. But Judge Helen Gillmor of the US District Court for the District of Hawaii grantedHawaiian’s motion for summary judgment Wednesday, finding it would have forced undue hardship on the airline, which had to cancel flights when employees got sick.

The case is among many religious bias lawsuits stemming ...