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The EEOC has filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against UPS in federal court in Chicago.
The suit alleges the package delivery giant consistently refuses to allow disabled workers to take extended medical leave as a reasonable accommodation. The EEOC filing seeks to make the suit a class action.
UPS allows workers to take up to a year of medical leave before terminating them.
The employee at the center of the controversy, Trudi Momsen, suffers from multiple sclerosis. She took a year of medical leave and returned to work. After working 18 days, Momsen claimed she needed more time off to deal with side effects of her medication. UPS maintains she never requested accommodation and abandoned her job.
The suit seeks back pay and compensatory and punitive damages for Momsen and other similarly situated employees.
UPS has vowed to fight the suit. The company claims its disability policy is one of the nation’s most generous.
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said this on 05 Jan 2010 1:40:07 PM EST
I am a DISABLED VETERAN. UPS told me I must come back in a year or be fired. I returned. That wasn't good enough. I was not allowed to have any light duty or even work AT ALL until I got a 100% able to work from my doctor. He said that it was strange that other UPS employees didn't need a 100% release. But then, those other UPS employees weren't the ONLY FEMALE ON THE WHOLE EVENING SHIFT (they had managed to successfully get rid of every other female ten years previously and in fact, I was one of extremely few whites working there, too.). In fact, when I transferred over from the morning shift, where there had been other females, I was told, point blank, by fellow co-workers, that I didn't need to be there, and they would try to find me another job. Despite having won grievances based on discrimination from my boss, I was told by my union that I was NOT to bring anything else to my shop steward. A couple of weeks later, a male supervisor began sexually harassing me. And- guess who was the one fired? Yep. Two months after I reported them to Atlanta, I was fired by the very people I reported. And my union provided attorney LIED to me to get me to settle, and the union kept people from coming forth...Did I mention that my union, in 6 years of being a "member", refused to give me a union card, or let me join the tsp? or get my 5-year vested benefits (including 401k and stock options)?
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