BURNS v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA JOHN BURNS, , Case No. 2:24-cv-01822-JDW v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, MEMORANDUM What’s legal isn’t always the same as what’s fair. An employer can treat an employee in ways that many people would consider unfair as long as the employer doesn’t violate antidiscrimination laws. In this case, the City of Philadelphia terminated John Burns after he took an 18-month leave of absence without proper authorization. If that were the whole story, this would be an easy case. But accepting Mr. Burns’s version of events as true,…