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<blockquote data-quote="Cole" data-source="post: 182954" data-attributes="member: 9507">We have been trying to fix it, but, things have gotten far worse, and imho it is a terrible tragedy that someone like Sattelite here felt he had to withdraw. Ok I imagine we should stick to the subject.&nbsp;I do remember reading the Washington State Law suit about the company harrassing people not to take their lunches etc..., and there was one statement that imho was the $12,000,000.00 settlement statement, and it was a driver saying he had skipped his lunch for quite a while, then finally he decided he had enough and started taking it, so his sup started threatening him, and said, &quot;we won&#039;t need you much longer, but they&#039;ll be here soon to crush your head&quot;. &nbsp;To me I felt there was no way UPS was going to let that statement be read in front of a judge/court etc...I imagine the sup. that made that statment was fired. Also when they did settle it and paid it came down to the state&#039;s wage and hour laws, so if your laws don&#039;t support it, you may not be eligible for it.&nbsp;It could be that UPS just let it get to doors of the court and decided to settle it. I do think, one has to exhaust the grievance system before going to the courts etc...or it can be sent back for the grievance system. You never know. &nbsp;What about those drivers who choose to skip it without provocation from the company, alot of that goes on too, but I think most get paid for the time, but I don&#039;t know for certain?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cole, post: 182954, member: 9507"] We have been trying to fix it, but, things have gotten far worse, and imho it is a terrible tragedy that someone like Sattelite here felt he had to withdraw. Ok I imagine we should stick to the subject. I do remember reading the Washington State Law suit about the company harrassing people not to take their lunches etc..., and there was one statement that imho was the $12,000,000.00 settlement statement, and it was a driver saying he had skipped his lunch for quite a while, then finally he decided he had enough and started taking it, so his sup started threatening him, and said, "we won't need you much longer, but they'll be here soon to crush your head". To me I felt there was no way UPS was going to let that statement be read in front of a judge/court etc...I imagine the sup. that made that statment was fired. Also when they did settle it and paid it came down to the state's wage and hour laws, so if your laws don't support it, you may not be eligible for it. It could be that UPS just let it get to doors of the court and decided to settle it. I do think, one has to exhaust the grievance system before going to the courts etc...or it can be sent back for the grievance system. You never know. What about those drivers who choose to skip it without provocation from the company, alot of that goes on too, but I think most get paid for the time, but I don't know for certain? [/QUOTE]

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