TSA Worker Advances Sabbath Scheduling Bias Suit Against DHS

A former Transportation Security Administration officer can pursue allegations that the government failed to accommodate his need for regular days off on the Jewish Sabbath.

The worker didn’t wait too long to file his lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, TSA’s parent agency, and he plausibly alleged that the government knew of his beliefs but made him work on a Saturday anyway, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said. DHS argued it provided reasonable accommodations but it’s too early in the case for that, and the “allegations belie that those accommodations were in fact ...