slick
a couple of things would be good to know in your case. like how many years have you been delivering?
as a driver that ended up canning a knee, and because the center manager ignored the doctors recommendations, tore up the other knee on taw, after three surgeries, the company doc, with the ups "industrial rehab nurse", disqualified me from ever driving again for ups.
she thought she would sucker him to ok me back to work by giving him a feeder driver work responsibility checklist, but he saw through that in a heartbeat. but he even disqualified me from feeders as well, saying that the strain on the knees would be far too great.
that basically put me in no mans land. couldnt work as a driver, but ups did not have any jobs open that i could bid into.
as a result of being a union shop, ups was barred from creating a position as they had done in the past. you see, any job they "created" would become a permanent job after 30 days, and as such would be open to the bid process once a year. so technically, someone with more seniority than me could bid on that job after the first 30 days, rendering the reason for that job mute.
as it was, the ba informed me that the local had a provision that had been passed a few months before that allowed a driver to retire early by paying the contributions for the last year, and get out.
basically, if you have 29 years in, and you want out with the 30 year pension, you could buy out your last year, and retire early.
but in the case of an disabling injury, you could buy out up to three years. which is what we did in my case. it cost me almost 80 grand to do so, but that was the only real alternative.
my best suggestion to you would be go see a lawyer. in many cases, the extra little bit they win, is the amount that you would pay them anyway. but the hassle of having to deal with the insurance company, sups etc, its just a better way of dealing with it. it also keeps some over eager sup/insurance claims adjuster from walking all over your rights.
in most cases they wont make you any more money, but they should not cost you any either.
one last thing
surgeon does not want me to go back to delivering pkgs.
that surgeon needs to comunicate that with the company docs. nothing worse that a specialist that says you cant, and a doc in the box saying no problem. a lawyer will also help with this.
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