June 17, 2021
Eastern Airlines may have violated the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act by firing an executive shortly after she requested time off to care for her child and mother near the start of the pandemic, but she didn't make a case that the company discriminated against her because she was Black, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled.
September 04, 2020
The pandemic has brought with it a wave of novel employment litigation, including lawsuits accusing businesses of not adequately protecting workers, denying disability accommodations and failing to notify workers before laying them off. Here, Law360 looks at six coronavirus-related employment suits to watch.
June 19, 2020
Eastern Airlines urged a Pennsylvania federal judge Friday to dismiss a suit from a former director who claims she was wrongly fired for trying to take time off under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, saying she was fired before the act went into effect.
April 16, 2020
A former director at Eastern Airlines hit the company with a suit in Pennsylvania federal court Thursday, claiming she was fired for trying to take time off under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a law Congress recently passed to address the COVID-19 outbreak.