T-Mobile Worker’s Covid-19 Telework Raises Bias Issues for Trial

T-Mobile USA Inc. should face trial on a former employee’s claim that it failed to accommodate his post-traumatic stress disorder by allowing him to work from home to avoid his “toxic” work environment.

Calvin Lewis was permitted to work remotely beginning April 10, 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison of the US District Court for the District of Maine said Thursday. That came after the company denied his request in January 2020 to telework on the ground that working in the call center where he served as a coach of a team of 10 …