He used approved FMLA leave. Weeks later, he says, Delta built a case to fire him
A Delta flight attendant says the airline fired him over a disputed parking receipt after he used approved migraine leave — a retaliation case worth watching.
The lawsuit, filed on April 22, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, lands squarely in territory that should sound familiar to any HR leader who has ever signed off on intermittent leave. Jeremiah Harris, a former flight attendant, says Delta Air Lines suspended and then terminated him shortly after he called in sick under the Family and Medical Leave Act for a migraine episode, and that the airline used a questionable travel audit to justify the decision.
According to Harris v. Delta Air Lines, Inc., No. 1:26-cv-00811, Harris started with Delta in July 2023 and had been approved for intermittent FMLA leave for a migraine condition that, he says, can leave him unable to read, drive, focus, or work. He says he drove his mother's car to New York City to report to his home base, began feeling ill after arriving, and called in for FMLA time two days later, following the usual procedure. He returned to work afterward.
The trouble, according to the filing, started about a month later. Harris says Delta placed him on unpaid suspension on June 26, 2025, and opened an investigation into whether he had actually been at his home base when he called out. The airline, he alleges, questioned a parking garage receipt...
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