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The ability to work overtime can be an essential job function under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, deferring to United Parcel Service’s (UPS’s) explanation that overtime was essential given unpredictable increases in workload, such as during the holidays and inclement weather.

The plaintiff worked for UPS as a delivery driver for more than 30 years. After multiple physical ailments due to a back injury and a degenerative hip condition, his doctor determined that he was unable to work more than eight hours per day. UPS, however, required delivery delivers to be available for overtime work, up to 9.5-hour days. When the plaintiff informed his manager of his work limitation, his manager allegedly told him, “Congratulations. Your career at UPS is now over. … UPS won’t allow anybody to work with a permanent restriction.”

On 25 July 2018, Advocate General Kokott proposed that the EU Court of Justice validate the annulment by the EU General Court of the European Commission’s 2013 prohibition decision of UPS’s planned acquisition of its logistics rival, TNT. In particular, Advocate General Kokott has confirmed in her (non-binding) opinion that the General Court was justified in censuring the Commission and, in turn, quashing the prohibition decision, on account of a fatal procedural error committed by the Commission during its phase II administrative review.

In the event that the Court of Justice follows Advocate General Kokott’s views (and thus confirms the General Court’s findings), this would be an extremely rare instance of the EU Courts overturning a decision of the Commission to block a deal. It would also act as a strong (and possibly costly) reminder to the Commission of the importance of respecting procedural safeguards – ‘procedural guarantees’ which, Advocate General Kokott reminds us, cannot be compromised despite the understandable “desire to incorporate more economic expertise into the assessment of competition cases”.

What better way to start the school year than by having a university president hand you a check?

That’s what happened to four University of Louisville students working at United Parcel Service (UPS) Worldport on Monday night.

The students had been working nights at UPS, benefiting from tuition bonuses from the Metropolitan College program.

Nurse Theresa Klenk sees plenty of cases of heatstroke at the New Jersey hospital where she works.

But when her husband, a UPS driver, was admitted with symptoms incurred during a shift driving a brown delivery truck with no air conditioning, she decided to do something.

Klenk created a petition on change.org in July urging UPS to provide air conditioning in its trucks. It’s been signed more than 210,000 times.

But UPS is not planning to equip its vehicles.