Hospital’s Nixing Job Offer to HIV-Positive Worker Could Be Bias

A Georgia hospital may have violated federal disability bias law when it rescinded its offer of a safety officer position to a worker after learning he is HIV positive, a federal judge in Savannah ruled.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission raised several issues warranting a trial in its lawsuit for Corey McKever against St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia said.

Among other things, a jury must decide whether McKever could have performed the essential functions of a safety officer without posing a direct threat to patient safety, the court said.

The ...