Subject: Southwestern Bell Cited for Firing HIV+ Man
Date: Published: 11/4/91 (23 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Ruling Cites Southwestern Bell

    DALLAS (AP) -- A judge ordered Southwestern Bell Corp. to
 pay $757,000 to a former employee who says he was fired
 because he has the AIDS virus.
    District Judge Gary Hall's ruling also ordered the company
 to reinstate Alan Rehwinkel, 36, by Dec. 2, and to stop
 discriminating against him because of his medical condition.
 AIDS is classified as a handicap under the state's human
 rights law.
    Southwestern Bell will appeal the ruling, company attorney
 William Brown indicated.
    The company hired Rehwinkel, an architect, in 1979.  He
 tested positive for the AIDS virus in 1985 and informed the
 company in January 1987.

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