FedEx has been under the a few strains lately. Not only have they been pressured from unions and employment lawyers who question their tactics on how they separate the private business franchise model with the compensation they provide, but also several discrimination suits that are individual and class-action. Currently a major case launched by a Houston employment lawyer and their client, Derosher Price, has ended with a nearly 3 million dollar ruling for the plaintiff.
According to the testimony, price was passed over a promotion for his security job in 1999. Back then, Price attempted to sue FedEx on discrimination charges but the case was later dismissed and lost when he tried to appeal in 2002. Price sued them over race discrimination and believed that the promotion was passed over because his superiors harbored negative racial feelings against him.
However, despite the lawsuit, the company started reprimanding price for his work performance, according to him in his following court case — part of his disposition in the next suit. Some of what the reprimanding was the way he was gathering information about his performance asking his fellow work peers about their account of his job performance. He was trying to […]

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