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… a recent lawsuit against UPS reminds employers to maintain continued vigilance against traditional FCRA background check claims. In a case filed on February 13, 2017, Riley v. United Parcel Service of America, Inc, Case No. 6:17-cv-00254, the plaintiff alleges that in November 2016, UPS offered him a job as a customer service representative, subject to a background check. Subsequently, on November 14, 2016, UPS notified plaintiff that the company was revoking the offer due to information revealed in the background check report, without ever telling him what the information was or giving him an opportunity to discuss the information.

Thereafter, Riley brought claims under FCRA alleging that that the company failed to provide him a copy of the report, failed to notify him of his rights under the FCRA, and failed to allow him to respond to the information.

United Parcel Service Inc., Atlanta, plans to contribute $2.3 billion to its U.S. defined benefit plans in 2017, the company announced in a 10-K filing with the SEC.

UPS also announced in the 10-K it made $685 million in lump-sum payments in the fourth quarter to about 22,000 former employees in the company’s U.S. defined benefit plans.

UPS had made the offer to about 50,000 former employees who were vested in the U.S. defined benefit plans but who had yet to retire. The population consisted of former employees in non-union and some union plans who had terminated their UPS employment between July 2003 and June 2016.