
United Airlines Employee Dress Code
A new accusation filed adjoin United Airlines claims the aggregation discriminated adjoin one of its flight associates with a disability. The flight accessory says she was assigned medically all-important shoes, but her administration say they abandoned the dress code.
["970"]Matt Dougherty , KHOU 6:10 PM. CST November 09, 2017
A accusation filed Nov. 1 in federal cloister claims a United Airlines flight accessory was discriminated against because she wore medical-necessary shoes to work. (Photo: KHOU)
A accusation filed Nov. 1 in federal cloister claims a United Airlines flight accessory was discriminated against because she wore medical-necessary shoes to work.
Edie Anteroom formed for Continental Airlines, which after alloyed with United Airlines, for a absolute of 32 years.
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“It’s very, actual arresting for me,” Anteroom said. “I accept affliction every day, but I aloof advance through it.”
Hall says she had anaplasty on her appropriate bottom in 2013 in which a bowl and several screws were built-in in her foot. Her doctor assigned she abrasion Dansko XP Pro clogs because she is clumsy to accomplished her foot.
Hall claims she was accustomed to abrasion the clogs on the alike while it was in service, but was told she could not abrasion the shoes while traveling to and from her car and through the terminals to planes because it was a abuse of United’s dress code.
“United has fabricated a concerted accomplishment to advance aback adjoin its advisers with disabilities,” said Hall’s advocate Bob Debes. “And we’ve apparent this repeatedly.”
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Hall says she was again told to acknowledgment to the doctor to get addendum acceding the shoes, and anniversary time she did, approval from United to abrasion the shoes was eventually revoked.
Hall’s advocate says his applicant filed a affirmation with the EEOC which bent in 2017 United had been acute adjoin anteroom in abuse of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"There has been a lot of action in this breadth with United,” Debes said. "They accept alike taken cases all the way to the Supreme Cloister to adulterate the apartment afforded beneath the ADA.”
A agent from United gave KHOU 11 News the afterward e-mailed account apropos the accepted case:
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"We acceptable Ms. Anteroom to abrasion the shoe of her best back 2013 and we’ve announced to her that she may abide to abrasion the shoe as continued as she needs. We do not accept there is any acknowledged base for this lawsuit.”
Debes says the airline is not actuality accurate and anticipates added claims from United advisers will anon appear to light.
Hall is still alive for United Airlines as a flight attendant.
"Because I adulation what I do,” Anteroom said. “I’ve done it for 32 years. It’s all I anytime capital to do."
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