
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, October 1, 1993                   TAG: 9310010216
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: GREENSBORO, N.C.                                LENGTH: Short

USAIR TO PAY AMPUTEE PIEDMONT WOULDN'T HIRE

USAir Inc. will pay $80,000 to a Greensboro pilot turned down for a job because his right leg had been amputated below the knee.

The U.S. Labor Department said an administrative law judge approved the consent decree with pilot Ted Freedman on Sept. 7.

The department brought the case in October 1990, alleging that Piedmont Aviation Inc. rejected Freedman in 1985 and 1987 for a pilot position.

The complaint was filed against USAir because Piedmont merged with the Arlington, Va.-based airline in 1989.

Freedman has held an Airline Transport Pilot's license - required for flying passenger aircraft - since 1978 and has flown for a number of smaller airlines, according to the Labor Department.

The department said the settlement is the second employment discrimination case involving Piedmont and USAir that the agency's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has helped resolve.

In 1992, USAir agreed to pay $1.8 million to people who were rejected for pilot and flight attendant jobs, allegedly because of race. - Associated Press

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