USPS Emails About Depressed Worker Fuel Job Retaliation Trial

Emails among U.S. Postal Service managers and other “higher ups” referring to a depressed employee as “the reason God made” gin and ridiculing him as a “crazy dude” and a “nut case” could show the denial of some requests for jobs at a post office closer to his home were retaliatory, the Eastern District of Wisconsin ruled.

A trial is necessary on some of Daniel Schneider’s claims because the USPS supervisor who rejected Schneider for the jobs in question, which would have been promotions, knew he had taken Family and Medical Leave Act leave for his mental health struggles, the ...