DENVER – Five pilots and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have reached a settlement with Denver-based Frontier Airlines resolving EEOC charges filed in May 2018.
A federal judge last week refused to throw out a long-running lawsuit against private prison operator The GEO Group, and is instead permitting a jury to decide whether the company
A Frontier airliner on final approach to Denver International Airport on Friday, April 17, 2020.
A class action lawsuit against Frontier Airlines is proceeding after a federal judge denied the company’s motion to dismiss it.
The lawsuit alleges the Denver-based airline discriminates against pilots, flight attendants and others who are pregnant as well as nursing mothers. Among other things, the suit claims breastfeeding women were denied breaks or facilities to pump milk, forcing them to give up breastfeeding or work long shifts without pumping.
“Our clients are excited to move forward and continue in that process and move the case towards a potential resolution not just for them, but for the many other women that are subject to these policies,” said Juno Turner, an attorney with Towards Justice, a law firm in Colorado representing the plaintiffs.
The leader of the U.S. Senate, Republican Mitch McConnell, has warned that a forthcoming wave of litigation over Covid-19 will amount to a “second pandemic.” That’s the basis for a continuing effort in Congress to shield companies from lawsuits filed by workers and consumers who get sick. Though a liability shield ended up being dropped from the economic stimulus measure passed in the final days of 2020, the issue is not going away, and some states have moved to provide their own versions of leg