Judge Orders United Airlines Not to Put Workers Seeking Vaccine Mandate Exception on Leave

A United Airlines Boeing 737 plane is seen at the gate at Washington's Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va.,, on March 2, 2021. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered United Airlines not to place workers seeking an exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on unpaid leave.

The temporary ruling was issued by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman so workers who filed for an exemption aren’t unduly harmed before he can hear oral arguments in the case.