The suit claims this FedEx driver was fired because of his ancestry and ethnicity. "The termination of plaintiff because of his accent is in effect a termination because of his national origin," the lawsuit claims.
I'm sure the driver's response after his firing was "FedEx трахнитесь"
Utah truck driver claims FedEx fired him due to Russian accent | Deseret News
This is another prime example of FedEx hiring the cheapest possible labor to fill a driver's seat. They don't care if he can speak adequate English or if he's safe. He's a warm body who works for less than average and is also probably willing to work over hours or do whatever the contractor wants...legal or not. This is a big reason for the high Ground accident rate in tractor-trailers, and it is a law that CDL-A license holders need to be able to converse with law enforcement, scale operators etc.
That said, I feel for this guy because FedEx took their typical approach to a situation where an employee has become a "liability"....sever the relationship. He was willing to work on the issue (his poor English) and most employers would say " Hey, let's work with "Igor" because he's a good employee and he needs the job". But wait, Igor works for the
contractor, who should have sole responsibility for Igor because he is employed by the contractor, not FedEx.
The fact that FedEx and the contractor are jointly being sued is wonderful because it points to FedEx being directly involved in aspects of their operation which are supposed to be contractor-only issues. Every case like this one builds evidence that FedEx actually runs Ground, and that workers are indeed held to employee standards, the rationale needed to eliminate the Ground/Contractor/ISP model and make Mr. Smith run his Ground division without subsidized labor. FedEx will "vigorously defend itself',"deny any wrongdoing", and settle with this driver out-of-court in the hope they can keep case like this off the radar. But it isn't working. For at least 2 days, this story ran at the head of Yahoo.com and other homepages, reaching millions of readers, most of whom probably got a bad impression of FedEx.
Ground semis are going to keep crashing, because experienced professional semi-drivers aren't going to work for the crap wages Ground pays. FedEx will get the leftovers...the ones who can't speak English, who have little experience, and will also push the safety envelope because they have few alternatives.
All Fred cares about is how he is going to pay
his workers less and shovel more of the costs of employing them onto the taxpayers. Merry Christmas Fred!! Maybe the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future need to pay your miserable self a visit.
Fred S...rat bastard supreme.
