October 9, 2019 Case: Disability Discrimination/Retaliation (D. Alaska) After a bench trial, a federal district court in Alaska rules that a discharged disabled mail processing clerk for the U.S. Postal Service failed to show that he was discharged in retaliation for filing an informal EEO complaint five years earlier and complaining about the terms of […]
The U.S. Postal Service was delivered a win April 10 when the Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a letter carrier’s retaliation claim against the agency ( Cabral v. Brennan , 5th Cir., No. 16-50661, 4/10/17 ). Javier Cabral, a Mexican-American over the age of 40, was suspended for two days after he hit one […]
A U.S. Postal Service worker who was in charge at the Unity Post Office until last year has filed a lawsuit accusing her employer of retaliation after she demanded that they take a death threat allegedly made by a co-worker more seriously. Diana Mallard of Skowhegan, who has been on medical leave from the Postal […]