A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 and United Airlines A320 Airbus on seen method to San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco.
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A federal judge in Texas on Monday dominated that United Airlines‘ employee vaccine coverage can proceed.
The Chicago-based airline has one of many strictest employee vaccine insurance policies within the nation. In September, it stated that workers who obtain medical or non secular exemptions could be positioned on unpaid depart.
Six workers filed swimsuit to dam the coverage in September.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman wrote in his ruling: “it is not for the Court to decide if United’s vaccine mandate is bad policy. Rather, it is the Court’s role to determine if Plaintiffs carried their burden to obtain a preliminary injunction.”
United stated Monday that the roughly 2,000 workers who have been granted non secular or medical exemptions to its coverage may apply for non-customer dealing with roles and that those that don’t apply will likely be placed on depart.
“We are working to identify non-customer facing roles where accommodated employees can apply and continue working until it is safe for them to their return to their current positions,” it stated.
United has stated that greater than 96% of its 67,000-person U.S. workforce is vaccinated.
