Transportation Industry

FedEx Must Comply With EEOC Request Over Record-Keeping

Transport Topics, September, 2006 by Anonymous

Package delivery firm FedEx Corp. must comply with an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission subpoena seeking information on now employee records are kept, a judge has ruled.

U.S. District Court Judge Raner Collins in Tucson, Ariz., ordered FedEx to produce the documents demanded by the EEOC, which is investigating allegations of racial discrimination at the company. The agency wants information about the type of computerized or machine-readable files that FedEx keeps, Collins said.

"The file management description here is sought solely as a means to tailor later inquiry," Collins said in his order, dated Sept. 8.

Jim McCluskey, a FedEx spokesman in Memphis, Tenn., told TRANSPORT TOPICS the company was "reviewing the decision" and did not have any additional...

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