A Unilever PLC subsidiary is free of a lawsuit alleging it engaged in racial and religious discrimination against a remote senior manager fired for refusing to comply with the company’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate, a federal judge said.
The ex-manager at Unilever United States Inc. didn’t sufficiently allege that he had a sincerely held religious belief that conflicted with the vaccination requirement or that the company terminated him because he’s Black and practices Kemetism, a religion from North Africa, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said Monday in an unpublished opinion.
Plaintiff Keith Worthy moved from ...
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