United Workers’ Job Bias Suit Over Covid Vaccine Mandate Trimmed

United Airlines Inc. convinced a federal judge to dismiss several claims from a proposed class lawsuit over the company’s handling of workers with religious or medical objections to receiving Covid-19 vaccination.

The ruling Monday by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas rejected allegations by two of the workers leading the suit that they were denied accommodation for their religious beliefs when they were told to mask up at work and regularly submit Covid tests if they didn’t want to be vaccinated. Those allegations failed to plausibly state that the workers experienced an adverse employment action, the ...