UPS Loses on Safety Threat, Other Issues in Deaf Worker’s Suit

A deaf United Parcel Service Inc. employee convinced a federal court that he was qualified to perform the essential duties of a package car driver and wouldn’t have posed a direct safety threat in that job, narrowing the issues for trial on his disability discrimination claims.

The ruling Thursday by the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida reaffirmed the court’s prior ruling in the case that UPS wasn’t entitled to disregard a hearing exception the employee obtained from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and instead rely on a baseline hearing test in federal motor carrier safety ...