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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 603399" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>So why did Express do away with the BST a few years back? A completely unbiased and objective evaulation of a candidates ability to perform simple functions. It is because tests like that tend to place certain groups of people who have capability to perform the job at a disadvantage in the selection process. Express trying to have and eat its cake too.....</p><p> </p><p>I'm not saying that map reading skills, listening skills, reading skills or the ability to rapidly distinguish between different letter sequences aren't valuable characteristics of an Express employee, it is the METHOD by which those skills were assessed that was faulty.</p><p> </p><p>FedEx does engage in various forms of age discrimination. You take a 24 year old athlete to establish a route goal over a few months time then place a 45 year old Courier on that route which has 20 years with Express and wonder why the stops per hour is 5% less? Come on, you know better. </p><p> </p><p>Express for YEARS has structured its routes around the capabilities of very young and energetic Couriers to set route goals. Then experienced Couriers are placed on those routes and struggle to maintain that goal. If FedEx wants to do this, fine. But offer full retirement packages to Couriers after 15 years of service when their knees start to give out. You cannot honestly expect experienced Couriers to allow FedEx to chew them up over 15 to 20 years of work and then toss them out because some new hire can run the route 5% faster. This is yet another reason why Express desperately needs a union. </p><p> </p><p>FedEx is too smart to actually place in writing "Get rid of the experienced Couriers that complain of knee pain". But FedEx DOES place policies into effect which are de facto discriminatory against those who are older. The latest push to get "an extra stop per hour", is just another attempt to get some of the older Couriers out. No where in that policy does it state "can the oldies", but the end effect is just that, push the Couriers to move even faster and if you can't move fast enough, out the door you go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 603399, member: 22880"] So why did Express do away with the BST a few years back? A completely unbiased and objective evaulation of a candidates ability to perform simple functions. It is because tests like that tend to place certain groups of people who have capability to perform the job at a disadvantage in the selection process. Express trying to have and eat its cake too..... I'm not saying that map reading skills, listening skills, reading skills or the ability to rapidly distinguish between different letter sequences aren't valuable characteristics of an Express employee, it is the METHOD by which those skills were assessed that was faulty. FedEx does engage in various forms of age discrimination. You take a 24 year old athlete to establish a route goal over a few months time then place a 45 year old Courier on that route which has 20 years with Express and wonder why the stops per hour is 5% less? Come on, you know better. Express for YEARS has structured its routes around the capabilities of very young and energetic Couriers to set route goals. Then experienced Couriers are placed on those routes and struggle to maintain that goal. If FedEx wants to do this, fine. But offer full retirement packages to Couriers after 15 years of service when their knees start to give out. You cannot honestly expect experienced Couriers to allow FedEx to chew them up over 15 to 20 years of work and then toss them out because some new hire can run the route 5% faster. This is yet another reason why Express desperately needs a union. FedEx is too smart to actually place in writing "Get rid of the experienced Couriers that complain of knee pain". But FedEx DOES place policies into effect which are de facto discriminatory against those who are older. The latest push to get "an extra stop per hour", is just another attempt to get some of the older Couriers out. No where in that policy does it state "can the oldies", but the end effect is just that, push the Couriers to move even faster and if you can't move fast enough, out the door you go. [/QUOTE]
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