United Parcel Service Inc. reached a $1.7 million agreement with the EEOC to settle a nationwide lawsuit challenging the delivery company’s policy of discharging workers who can’t return from medical leave after 12 months.
More than 70 workers allegedly harmed by UPS’s “inflexible 12-month leave policy” will share in the settlement, according to the proposed consent decree filed July 28 (EEOC v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., N.D. Ill., No. 1:09-cv-05291, proposed consent decree 7/28/17).
The company also agreed to certify to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that its workplace policies prohibiting disability discrimination include the requirement that human ...
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