Former United Airlines employee was called anti-Asian slurs and physically assaulted on the job, set…

United Airlines will pay $99,000 to settle a federal discrimination case in which an Asian American employee alleged that a supervisor called him an anti-Asian slur, told him to pull up his mask and physically assaulted him.

The incident, which involved Alsunbayar Davaabat, a Mongolian American who was then a driver at the airline’s Denver catering facility, occurred at the height of the coronavirus pandemic amid a rise in reports of anti-Asian hate, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity…