UPS managers routinely manipulate time-clock records in a bid to avoid paying drivers overtime, three former employees claim in a class-action lawsuit.
Fari Murray, Carlos Palagoachi and Warren Payne also charge the delivery giant gave plum assignments and higher pay to white employees instead of minority workers, and routinely forced road supervisors to pay out-of-pocket for vehicular accidents in a bid to avoid reporting collisions to the company’s insurer, according to court papers.
“They’re cheating, they’re lying, they’re stealing people’s time, they’re not reporting accidents and injuries, and you can never go home,” Murray said. “You’re working 17 or 18 hours, and if you speak up you get fired and harassed.”
They’re seeking unspecified damages in their Brooklyn Federal Court filing.
UPS said the allegations are “not consistent with our culture or processes,” and that they would investigate.