Top 10 Reasons to Boycott FedEx

3.   Dishonesty & falsification?

Dishonesty: In the State of California, FedEx has a self-insured certificate for purposes of Workers’ Compensation (Certificate Number 2091). One basis to revoke the right of FedEx to maintain its certificate is for good cause following a hearing, to wit, a finding that FedEx failed to discharge its compensation obligations in an honest manner.

In early 2003, Kevan Shetler, defense counsel for FedEx, represented to the Presiding Judge of the San Francisco Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board that an injured worker who we represented, had failed to show up for medical evaluations. The same allegation made by Mr. Shetler was also memorialized by the injured worker’s primary doctor as having been stated by a claims examiner for Sedgwick Claims Management, Inc., the Workers’ Compensation claims administrator for FedEx.

The truth of the matter is that the injured worker did not miss any examinations, rather, and as according to Donald Stanford, M.D., the medical examiner for Sedgwick, Mr. Shetler gave instructions to Dr. Stanford to refrain from writing any reports. Because Mr. Shetler necessarily knew of his instruction to Dr. Stanford, and it is reasonably expected that the claims administrator was in frequent communication with Mr. Shetler, that both representations were dishonest.

This conduct was brought to the attention of Heather McKnight, FedEx Human Resources Manager, by the injured worker, with a request that it be investigated. However, to date, we are unaware of any information to show that there was any corrective action, let alone any investigation, leading us to believe that FedEx supports the aforementioned dishonesty.

Falsification: In early 2004 FedEx management finally stopped altering employee time cards we hope. Employees have long complained about this activity. In April 1998 Courier Kevin Osioway quotes "most of us have actually been clearly and deliberately instructed to falsify documents by managers to such an extent throughout our careers that the interpretation of falsification has become as diluted as cheap wine."

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