(PM.) It has been revealed that United Airlines‘ CEO Scott Kirby allegedly mocked those seeking religious exemptions from the company’s strict Covid-19 vaccine mandate, and proposed treating those who had been granted special accommodation differently than those who got the jab.
Kirby reportedly even went so far as to suggest that religiously exempt employees should have to wear a special symbol on their badges, however that idea was struck down by United’s lawyers.
According to documents filed this weekend as part of a larger lawsuit against the airline, from the outset of the airline’s mandate, Kirby “threatened employees to ‘be very careful about’ requesting such accommodations because ‘very few’ people would ‘get through the medical and religious exemption process’.”
Kirby was accused of having “derisively described such employees as ‘all [of a] sudden decid[ing] I’m really religious.”
“Making his plans clear,” the document added, “Kirby warned that anyone who applied for an accommodation was ‘putting [their] job on the line’.”
United allegedly required higher ups to “call out” the “high bar” for accommodation requests since it was a “Scott-level initiative” made “consciously knowing that [it] would upset some people.”
