United Airlines flight attendants on the special charters earn more money and receive 5-star accommodations. Those that work on the special charters are also gifted with tickets to playoff games and the Super Bowl.
Details of the discrimination case against United Airlines
The two women accused United Airlines of demeaning its hard-working and long-standing loyal employees. They also accused the company of creating a workplace culture in which discrimination, harassment, and retaliation flourishes.
According to the lawsuit, the complainant alleged that “United has unlawfully determined that the economic value of hard-working flight attendants should rest entirely on their racial and physical attributes and stereotypical notions of sexual allure in violation of California law, and as if decades of laws and policies preventing discrimination based on age, race, and ancestry, and gender simply do not exist.”
The complaint stated that United Airlines’ practice of allowing young, white, blonde flight attendants with less experience to work on the charter flights, is an example that it is valuing employees based “entirely on their racial and physical attributes and stereotypical notions of sexual allure.”
