FedEx Worker Tells 5th Circuit Shortened Limit On Retaliation Claims Doesn’t Apply

Mealey's (July 25, 2023, 8:24 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Contract language regarding a statute of limitations relied upon by FedEx Corporate Services Inc. in challenging an award of more than $366 million for a former employee on retaliation claims is “small, hard-to-read print,” and FedEx has already conceded that the alleged six-month limit has been deemed unreasonable for Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 claims by courts, the former employee argues in her appellee brief filed in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....