Ups is keeping 46 pilots on furlough to save 8 millions and ends up paying 18 millions to a wrongfully fired supervisor. Gotta love this..

 

UPS Supervisor Awarded $18,098,478 in Retaliatory Wrongful Termination Case (PR Newswire, Aug. 28)
On Friday, August 24th, a unanimous federal jury awarded former UPS supervisor Michael Marlo $2,201,425 in economic and non-economic damages, and an additional $15,897,053 in punitive damages following a six day trial. The eight-person jury found UPS retaliated against Marlo for bringing a prior wage and hour lawsuit, reporting safety violations to OSHA and the DOT, and discussing and encouraging other UPS supervisors to file their own lawsuits due to safety and wage violations by the company.
"After two and a half years of litigation, we are pleased Mr. Marlo was finally able to have a jury of peers hear his case and see the evidence of what UPS wrongfully put him through. After 22 years of dedicated and outstanding service to UPS, the jury clearly felt Mr. Marlo deserved to be treated fairly rather than railroaded by a sham investigation that resulted in a foregone conclusion – his termination. And the fact that at the time he was fired his trial against UPS was only 5 months away made it all the more egregious," said Mark Peters, one of the attorneys who represented Mr. Marlo. "We hope the jury's verdict will send a message to UPS and other employers throughout the State that retaliating against employees for engaging in constitutionally protected activity is not only illegal, but is also immoral."

 

Not so fast, UPS is going to appeal the verdict and most likely settle for pennies on the Dollar, Mr. Marlo hired VERY good lawyers to his credit, however the fact that he was encouraging other UPS supervisors to file their own lawsuits due to safety and wage violations by the company is a big turn off for me. He should have quit his job in protest, not waiting for UPS to fire him when he knew this was throwing gas on the fire. Gold digger in my opinion.

 

Looks like he hit pay dirt.

 

I think he did protest very very effectively.

 

I'll take being a gold digger anytime as oppose to being machine gun kelly in the parking lot in-order to get even with someone who you feel has done you wrong!

 

So if i found a company to be violating OSHA regulations, FAR's, Safety rules, labor laws, etc.. I should just quit the company and hope that some one else doesn't get violated, injured, or killed?

So he got a payday out of it, which will be written off as a pittance in the next financial statement when UPS posts it's next billion plus in profits. Good for him, the only problem is there is no way that the company will be made to reform or be seriously penalized.

 

The truth is nothing changed when it comes to the behavior of the offending company that I know of. Prove me wrong and I'll admit to my error. This shows greed goes both ways, that's all.



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