FedEx Express Employees Racial
Discrimination Class Action

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky LLP, with co-counsel, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of FedEx Western Region African American and Latino hourly employees and African American Operations Managers. The Western Region of FedEx Express consists of employees in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and part of Texas.

Plaintiffs allege that FedEx Express has discriminated against minority employees on the basis of race with respect to promotion, compensation, and discipline. The lawsuit, entitled Satchell, et al. v. FedEx Express, was filed in 2003 in United States District Court in San Francisco, California.

Plaintiffs, African American and Latino hourly employees and African American Operations Managers at FedEx Express, allege the company engages in racial discrimination in violation of Federal and California law. Specifically, plaintiffs charge that FedEx Express has a system of highly subjective and arbitrary decision making that has had an adverse impact on minority employees and lower level African American managers than compared to non-minority employees and managers with the similar work experiences and qualifications. The alleged employee discrimination has negatively impacted class members with respect to promotion from casual to permanent and from part-time to full-time positions; promotion to higher-paying hourly jobs and to management; compensation; and discipline.

The class action lawsuit consists of two proposed classes of minority employees. The first class consists of all African American and Latino hourly Handlers, Couriers, Shuttle Drivers, Customer Service Agents, Cargo Handlers, Ramp Agents, Equipment Operators, and Ramp Transit Drivers working in FedEx's Western Region at any point from October 17, 1999 until the date of judgment in the case.

The second class consists of all African American Operations Managers and other managers below the level of Senior Manager working in FedEx's Western Region at any point from October 17, 1999 until the date of judgment in the case. Among the relief plaintiffs seek is back pay, front pay, compensatory damages for emotional distress, and damages for lost compensation and job benefits that they would have received but for the alleged discriminatory practices. There has been no determination by the court of the merits of plaintiffs' allegations or whether the case is entitled to class action status.

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