CSX fired him weeks after assuring him it had "zero tolerance" for retaliation
CSX Transportation is facing a federal lawsuit from a Naval Reservist who says the railroad fired him after he flagged discrimination.
Matthew Levesque spent roughly a decade as a signal maintainer for CSX, inspecting and maintaining railroad signal equipment in the Erie, Pennsylvania area. He joined the United States Naval Reserve in approximately June 2020. According to a lawsuit filed on April 15 in the Western District of Pennsylvania (Levesque v. CSX Transportation, Inc., Case No. 1:26-cv-00100), what followed was a pattern of hostility from a colleague-turned-supervisor that ultimately cost him his job — and, he argues, was driven by his military service and his use of family medical leave.
Levesque alleges the friction began as early as January 2021, when a colleague named Jared Fortner — who was required to cover Levesque's territory during drill weekends and training periods — made comments expressing resentment toward his military absences. The situation escalated, Levesque alleges, after Fortner was promoted to supervise him in late 2023. According to the filing, Fortner told him it "would be really nice to have an employee here who's here full-time" and that his drill schedule "puts a lot of extra work on everybody else."
In early May 2024, while Levesque was attending a drill in Virginia, Fortner allegedly called his local drill center in Buffalo, New York, demanding to know his...
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