Union Pacific Disability Bias Suit Now a Class Action

A group of Union Pacific Railway Co. workers who say the company fired them after an allegedly unlawful “fitness for duty” evaluation have won class certification for their disability discrimination lawsuit.

The class could reach 7,000 members, according to the Feb. 5 opinion from the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

Union Pacific’s implemented its company-wide fitness for duty evaluation policy in 2014, the court said. The company allegedly required workers to disclose health conditions and screened out other from jobs based on their disclosures and medical histories, according to the court’s opinion.

Union Pacific specifically requested information ...