EEOC sues UPS, alleges disability discrimination
Thursday May 11, 2:39 pm ET
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For the second time since March, The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against United Parcel Service Inc. alleging some form of discrimination.

The EEOC on May 10 filed a lawsuit against Atlanta-based UPS (NYSE: UPS - News), alleging the shipping company fired a veteran employee with a degenerative eye condition because of the disability. The EEOC said the employee, Eugenio D'Oliveira of Philadelphia, had an employment record free from any safety violations prior to his termination in July 2004. D'Oliveira was a 17-year UPS employee at its Horsham, Pa., facility.

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The EEOC alleges D'Oliveira, who worked as a sorter/loader, was fired after a new supervisor complained he was a threat to his own safety and others safety because of his retinitis pigmentosa visual impairment. D'Oliveira was suspended in April 2004 and required to provide medical documentation about his degenerative eye condition, which he did in June. The EEOC claims UPS concluded D'Oliveira could not safely perform his job and fired him without consulting his physician and without any objective medical or factual evidence. UPS failed to determine, the EEOC alleges, whether any reasonable accommodation could reduce the threat to safety it believed D'Oliveira presented.

The EEOC filed suit in federal district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The suit seeks "all appropriate equitable relief and damages" for D'Oliveira.

In March the EEOC sued UPS claiming the company committed religious discrimination by allegedly refusing to hire a Rastafarian as a driver helper because of his beard. UPS said the claim is " totally unfounded and untrue" and noted the plaintiff never even applied for a job at UPS.

Published May 11, 2006 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle

 

And yet thousands upon thousands want to work here!

 

I have got to ask. As you have been asked before with no response from you.

"Why are you working for UPS??"

Everybody has problems, and I do mean everybody.

 

Because Browntail is the company mascot. After all we wouldn't want UPS to be sued for undue firing of the company mascot would we?

 

What will YOU be flying after June 30? That's what I thought!

 

Why don't you answer the question? You sound like our union president......get asked a question....never answer it. WTFO?


Why are YOU working here?

 

So I can be senior to YOU!

 

What do people usually fly... an airplane.

 

Got to have a reason to fly one and after June 30, you won't have a reason!

 

Oh OK Sherlock