Hawaiian Airlines Workers Denied Class Status in Covid Vax Suit

Hawaiian Airlines Inc. overcame a bid for class certification in a religious and disability bias lawsuit by 500 or so former and current employees over the handling of their requests for exemption from the airline’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.

The ruling Tuesday by the US District Court for the District of Hawaii demonstrates the difficulty of pursuing religious or disability discrimination claims on a classwide basis. Such claims typically turn on individualized assessments unique to each proposed class member, meaning those issues predominate over more generalized questions common to the class.

That’s true of the various proposed classes and subclasses under ...