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douglas9

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Mon Feb 24, 2020, 02:23 PM Feb 2020

The Postal Service Fired Thousands of Workers for Getting Injured While Delivering and Processing Yo

One night in 2009, Madelaine Sattlefield lifted an 80-pound tray of letters carefully sorted by Missouri ZIP code. She had done this task thousands of times in nine years, but on this night, her arm seared with pain and went limp by her side. The tray crashed and sent envelopes cascading around her. She could barely move but immediately worried about what an injury might mean for her job.

“Anxiety had kicked in. I was like, what are they going to say, what are they going to do?” Sattlefield said.

Within months, the U.S. Postal Service fired her, one of about 44,000 employees who were either fired or left their jobs under pressure over five years in a program that “targeted” employees with work-related injuries, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A commission ruling on the class action complaint also found that the Postal Service discriminated against an additional 15,130 injured workers by changing their work duties or accommodations, and unlawfully disclosed the private medical information of injured workers across the country.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/02/postal-service-fired-thousands-workers-getting-injured-while-delivering-and-processing-your-mail/163275/

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The Postal Service Fired Thousands of Workers for Getting Injured While Delivering and Processing Yo (Original Post) douglas9 Feb 2020 OP
The biggest target for a middle management Postal Supervisor is an injured employee. Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #1

Midnight Writer

(21,546 posts)
1. The biggest target for a middle management Postal Supervisor is an injured employee.
Mon Feb 24, 2020, 04:28 PM
Feb 2020

They have a whole book full of dirty tricks to harass injured personnel. The goal is to get them to quit.

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