United Defeats Bias Claims by Asthmatic Worker Over Covid Leave

A United Airlines Inc. customer service representative lacked trial-worthy evidence that he was denied accommodations for his asthma during the Covid-19 pandemic, a federal judge ruled.

The former employee’s Americans with Disabilities Act claims failed primarily because he went on a 2.5-year medical leave of absence beginning in May 2020 that continued until he was fired in November 2022 after an investigation confirmed that he’d sexually harassed female coworkers, the US District Court for the District of Guam said. That meant United reasonably accommodated him by granting his medical leave requests and permitting him to take extended illness status, the ...