Werner hit with $36million judgement for refusing to hire deaf driver

WTF

 

I wonder if anyone ever thinks how suing a company for so much won’t hurt current employees…

 

Not after lawyer repeats " 36 million "
For 3rd time

 

I wonder if I should be glad I’m a nobody mom n pop. I guess you could take a few load bars and tires.

 

The headline had me confused, but upon reading the article, he got an exemption to be able to drive. They even went so far to bring him in for CDL training. So I guess at that point, Werner discriminated and fouled up.

 

Exactly. I bet you anything that's what got them slapped with that judgment. That was a lowdown move

 

So much for hearing tests.

 

That's just the thing though, they didn't put him in training. They claimed that they couldn't put him with a trainer because 1) he would not be able to communicate with a trainer and 2) they could not find a way to make a reasonable accommodation that would allow communication between him and a trainer.

It said that they had hired deaf drivers recently but none of them had to go out with a trainer because all of them already had 6 months' experience.

I don't think they did him dirty here, unless they had told him that they would hire him after he went through the school they own while knowing that he would not qualify to be hired after he graduated. If that's the case then I would argue that they deceived him into enrolling in their school, and although I'm not a lawyer I assume that would constitute fraud.