Asthmatic Worker Gets Covid-Related Telework Order, For Now (1)

An asthmatic employee may work from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and their Massachusetts employer can’t force them to return to the office, a federal judge ruled, barring the worker’s termination for at least 60 days.

In a rare instance of a worker seeking a preliminary injunction in a disability bias case, social worker Gabriel Peeples showed that they’re likely to prevail on the merits of their claims under federal and state law, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled Wednesday, using the non-gender specific pronoun to refer to Peeples.

The decision provides early evidence about ...