U.S. Steel Worker Advances Most Dyslexia Bias Claims

A U.S. Steel Corp. worker at an Illinois plant can take his disability discrimination and retaliation claims to trial after a federal magistrate judge rejected most of his employer’s bid for an early win.

The worker, who alleges he faced bias after revealing his dyslexia diagnosis, provided enough detail to get most of his claims in front of a jury, the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois said. But his evidence that he could do the job without any accommodations nixes his claims that U.S. Steel wrongly failed to accommodate him, Magistrate Judge Mark A. Beatty ...