Honeywell Unvaccinated Workers Advance Suit Over Special Rules

A Honeywell International Inc. subsidiary must face a class lawsuit by religious workers who say special conditions that accompanied their Covid-19 vaccine exemptions violated federal anti-discrimination law, a US judge said.

The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri cited recent US Supreme Court and Eighth Circuit precedent in ruling the Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies Inc. employees can go forward with their individual and class failure-to-accommodate claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The justices in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis relaxed the standard for what makes an alleged discriminatory job action adverse ...