The Chicago-based carrier, United Airlines is facing fresh accusations that the airline unlawfully denied requests for vaccine exemptions amongst its employees. United Airlines has been accused of making the application process for such exemptions very difficult and inconvenient.
Earlier this week, six employees from United Airlines filed for a class-action lawsuit in the state of Texas, claiming that the vaccine exemption process was intrusive and asked deep, personal questions into their own personal lives and beliefs. While each vaccine exemption was taken into review for consideration, the challenging application process could be seen as an attempt to make applying for a vaccination exemption literally impossible for airline employees.
In response to the lawsuit claims file in Texas, United Airlines stated that the lawsuits were without merit and the vast majority of the United Airlines workforce has accepted the vaccination mandate and given positive feedback to the airline. United Airlines also went on to state that more than 97 per cent of their domestic U.S. workforce has received the vaccine.
These lawsuits are just a small piece in the ever-growing collection of groups that are showing a reluctance to the vaccine, following the U.S. presidential administration’s push to get more employees vaccinated. Currently, President Biden’s administration is advocating that companies with more than 100 employees get fully vaccinated or introduce and implement strict weekly testing and contact tracing to stop the spread of the virus, more specifically the highly contagious delta variant, for the unvaccinated groups.
The six plaintiffs on Wednesday, September 22nd requested the judge to amend United’s current vaccination requirement deadline of September 27th and indefinitely suspend the airline’s enforcement of its vaccination mandate policy until the lawsuit is resolved.
The plaintiffs also claim that United’s vaccination exemption portal was open only until August 31st. Since then it has not been accepting any new applications, which according to the plaintiffs was frustrating since the airline had said in writing that this would be extended through until late September. The plaintiff’s main focus will be on the airline violation of federal law by discriminating on religious and disability grounds and against a person’s willingness to receive the vaccine or not.
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Source: https://aeronewsx.com/united-airlines-sued-for-refusing-employee-vaccination-exemptions/
