JetBlue Worker Advances Disability Bias Claim Over Covid Masking

JetBlue Airways Corp. lost its bid to dismiss a flight attendant’s claim that she was denied accommodation when wearing a face mask while working during the Covid-19 pandemic caused her breathing and digestive problems.

The worker sufficiently alleged that she was disabled by saying she vomited as often as nine times per flight and experienced fatigue, nausea, and respiratory distress as a result of the airline’s mandatory mask rule, the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida said Thursday. Breathing and digestive functions are major life activities protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the court said.

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