ACLU Sues Old Dominion Freight Lines Over Firing Of Transgender Trucker

Shouldn't a company be able to fire some one who will make the company look bad to costumers, corporate embarrassment

 

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Sues Old Dominion Freight Lines Over Firing Of Transgender Trucker

 

It depends upon how it's done - in this case, it's pretty obvious that OD completely screwed the pooch.

a 'look bad' excuse is pretty difficult to work these days. If you require uniforms, trimmed hair, etc - you can do that. This sort of situation... no.

 

Well, Well there is a transgender driver, hauling rock/sand and from the back she looks good. But from the front that changes once you realize it is a guy changed to a women. BTW: they ACLU sues everyone even it is over spilled milk, at a dinner party.

 

WTF...as long as she/he can is safe behind the wheel, delivers freight on time, and is respectful to co-workers and customers, who really cares.

This industry is about being able to drive safely/effectively...no matter if you are fat, black, white, gay, strait, ugly, transgendered, a little "slow" etc.

OD deserves to be sued and I hope Kaylee gets a nice fat settlement check.

 

ACLU is a little more selective than that. They sue for two reasons:

1) publicity. In other words, they don't think they can win, but the publicity is of the type they support.

2) if they think they WILL win.

Nothing in there at all about whether the cause is right. Nothing about whether the suit makes any sense legall OR logically.

But in this case - if nobody else has/had taken the case - I'm completely in their favor.

 

Well, most companies will react poorly when the words "harassment" and "Diagnosis" show up. "Let's just remove that issue before it becomes a full-fledged problem."

 

Sure - and so they should. The problem is, OD did it 100% wrong. You don't hit the victim in the head, you - at the very least - counsel the perpetrator. If the perpetrator has a history of harassment, then you fire his/her sorry butt and flag the personnel file as "do not rehire"

However, from this story, there was no harassment. Talk to your HR department - but by law, it's activities that have been repeated after their requested termination. i.e. whinyboy asks that Pornking stop making suggestive comments and to stop leaving copies of Naked Butts in the break room. If Pornking makes ONE more comment or leaves ONE more magazine in the break room - THAT is harassment. If Pornking keeps his mouth shut and his mags in the bottom drawer, no harassment has occured.

It does NOT include having a drawer full of nudie mags. It does NOT include having a tasteless picture taped to the inside of your locker - or even in your cubicle/office, if it can't be seen via a casual glance from OUTSIDE the doorway (there are caveats to this one).

Yup, it's pretty darn narrow - and now you know why EEOC and others typically do not find in favor of the plaintif.

If a company is worried about the possibility of such charges, the company should be launching an education program, not knee jerking into some ultra-conservative panic reaction.

 

In this case I would have to agree, WoW for once I agree with the ACLU What a shocker..