A Philadelphia massage therapist may proceed with her discrimination claims against the spa that fired her after an altercation with a co-worker, a federal court said.
Questions of fact exist whether J & G Spas LLC fired Aminah Heard because of the altercation or because of her race and disability, Judge Joel H. Slomsky said Monday for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, denying J & G’s motion for summary judgment.
Heard is Black and Native American. When she started working for J & G in 2019, she told them that she had a disability—her ankle ...
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