Former New York-based employees of Emirates Airline advanced their proposed class action saying the airline targeted American workers for layoffs during the Covid-19 pandemic and illegally failed to give them severance or advanced notice of their termination.
A Manhattan federal judge allowed the workers to move forward with claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, federal and state discrimination laws, and a New York labor law requiring advance notice of mass layoffs. The workers adequately alleged that they didn’t receive benefits they were entitled to receive under the airline’s severance plan, and that American workers were treated worse and ...