MrFedEx
Engorged Member
No. That is an incorrect reading.
Please see the posts from the original thread last year. It includes the filed complaint. It also shows that I knew her personally.
She elected not to RETIRE based on the recommendation and information from FedEx. She had been sick for years and continued to work while getting treatment as long as she could. By her wife's account FedEx was good to her in 2010 when it first started and in 2012-2013 when her cancer returned and ultimately took her life. She would get chemo on Friday and come back to work on Monday or Tuesday. She was very concerned for the welfare of her family and attempted to schedule chemo so that she missed the least amount of work possible. Her wife was a stay-at-home mother and small time artist. Basically, LT was the sole bread-winner and she knew her wife and children counted on her income. She had a rural route near the west coast of Sonoma county that was not very physically demanding that made this easier.
I left the location before LT became too ill to continue working so what follows is information from the complaint. Everything else I know to be true, so I am accepting this information at face value.
Once she could no longer work and was placed on leave she came under the management of the district HCMP. She could have retired and she asked to start hat process so her family could collect her fully vested traditional pension and PPP. She was advised that retiree medical costs would be very expensive for her treatments and that she should wait. To be fair I knew the HCMP and I do think this was given with good intentions, but it turned out to be a mistake because FedEx did not provide any protection for spousal survivor benefits until it was forced to do so in Windsor. On this point you are correct. Had she just retired and then died the cost of medical would not have mattered. Like I said before, she died 6 days too soon. Her family just wants what they would have received.
But, but...FedEx is a people company. FedEx cares!! Do you think the HCMP Advisor acted on their own or was advised to intentionally misinform from above? To not follow the dictates of the HCMP Manager would be the end of their career. Screwing this couple out of a hard-earned pension seems well within what this company would be willing to do in order to save money.
Note to all of you Purple People. This is how FedEx will treat you if you get sick and/or injured. You might want to remember it.