The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against FedEx for failing to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled transport drivers, instead forcing them to take unpaid leave or firing them, the agency announced Friday.
According to the EEOC, FedEx maintained a 100%-healed policy against ramp transport drivers, and when it learned a ramp transport driver had medical restrictions, put the driver on a 90-day temporary light-duty assignment. At the end of that assignment, if the driver still had medical restrictions, FedEx would place them on unpaid medical leave that expired after one year unless they qualified for disability benefits. ...
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