UPS settles class-action suit by deaf workers
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2003 -- In a settlement agreement reached yesterday, United Parcel Service, the nation's fourth largest private employer, has agreed to provide its 1,000 deaf workers with interpreters and other accommodations. The class-action suit charged that UPS routinely discriminated; that its deaf workers were unaware of emergency evacuation procedures and unable to understand trainings, orientations and other communications because the company would not provide interpreters or other communications accommodations.