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14 Feb 2024, 7:00 am
DEAF DRIVER DECLINED EMPLOYMENT WAS A VICTIM OF DISCRIMINATIONAfter a Omaha jury found against Werner Enterprises, Inc. and Drivers Management, LLC and awarded $36 million in punitive damages and $75,000 in compensatory damages to a truck driver who was denied employment because of his hearing related disability, a federal judge (in mid-January) reduced the jury’s verdict to $300,000 (because of the federal cap on compensatory and punitive damages in employment… [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 5:31 am by Ashley Morgan
Its origins can be traced to the work of Alfred Werner, the father of modern biochemistry. [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 3:23 am by Jon Hyman
It certainly got the attention of Drivers Management, LLC and Werner Enterprises, Inc., after a federal jury awarded the EEOC that amount in a disability discrimination lawsuit it filed on behalf of Victor Robinson, a deaf truck driver, denied employment because of his disability.According to the EEOC's lawsuit, the companies told Robinson that they could not hire him as a truck driver because he was deaf, even though he had graduated from truck driving school,… [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 8:07 am by Jay L. Levine and Grace Karabinus
Werner, founder of Werner Enterprises, was fined almost $500,000 in civil penalties. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:04 am by Richard Reibstein Esq.
The truckers sued transportation and logistics company, Werner Enterprises, Inc., alleging minimum wage violations due to the truckers’ alleged misclassification as independent contractors and not empl [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 9:53 am by Joy Waltemath
Analyzing the award under the Supreme Court’s three-part test set out in in BMW of North America, Inc. v. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 8:29 am by Nassiri Law
The following year, Werner Enterprises, Inc. was ordered to pay nearly $800,000 to driver trainees for unpaid rest breaks. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 1:06 pm by Aurora Barnes
Werner Enterprises Inc. 18-1541 Issue: Whether, and under what circumstances, per diem payments to an employee constitute wages, rather than reimbursement, under Section 207(e)(2) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. [read post]
1 Sep 2016, 5:22 am by Thomas J. Crane
Werner Enterprises, Inc., No. 15-2574, the three judge panel overturned a series of cases regarding a so-called “convincing mosaic” test. [read post]