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Is Obama trying to help the Job situation by filing charges on Old Dominion Freight? Or is he helping UNIONS? I think a Freight company is justified in not allowing alcoholics in their trucks. Is this the kind of regulations Obama plans to stimulate job growth with? http://teamstersonline.com/forums/freight-talk/29385-feds-sue-old-dominion-disability-discrimination.html

Are old dominion freight line jobs union jobs?

When we need employees, will we soon have to apply to the government and have employees assigned to us? There are provisions in the new stimulus bill (sorry; jobs bill) to prohibit discrimination of unemployed people. Old Dominion Freight Lines is being sued by the EEOC. They fire an alcoholic driver as required by D.O.T. regulations and are being sued for violating the A.D.A.

Curious about my NordicTrack online purchase.? I purchased a treadmill off of nordictrack.com last week. Supposedly my order was shipped on Friday, Friday is about to come again and my shipping information isn't yet available. My treadmill is being shipped through Old Dominion Freight Line and they tell me that it only takes 24 hours before shipping information is available online or over the phone. NordicTrack tells me it takes 3-5 business days, which is ludicrous. Has anyone placed a large order via NordicTrack's website? How long did it take? I would really hate to get .38 hott on NordicTrack.

Why does the Obama admin want alcoholics driving 18 wheelers? http://www.examiner.com/scotus-in-washington-dc/trucking-companies-told-to-hire-alcoholics-by-obama-administration Despite President Obama's empty rhetoric about jobs, his appointees at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are discouraging job creation by making sure that employers will be sued no matter what they do, such as ordering them to hire alcoholics to drive trucks and operate heavy machinery, even though such hires can later lead to costly lawsuits against employers by accident victims. Who would want to set up a business if doing so requires you to make risky, potentially-costly hiring decisions? (This is part of a pattern of economically-destructive decisions by the Obama Administration, whose stimulus package destroyed jobs in our export sector and wasted money on subsidies for overseas energy jobs at the expense of American workers, effectively outsourcing American jobs.) The EEOC is now demanding that trucking companies like Old Dominion Freight Line not only hire and employ “recovering” alcoholics, but also to allow them to continue working as interstate truckers rather than being assigned “to a less safety-sensitive position.” The EEOC notes that recovering alcoholics are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act; but it ignores the fact that even recovering alcoholics often relapse into drinking, and “even well-run alcohol rehab programs are known for having high relapse rates.” The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has a public safety exception designed to prevent things like alcoholics driving trucks (the so-called “direct threat” provision), but the EEOC has recently all but read that exception out of existence through pinched interpretation (In doing so, it has ignored binding federal appellate court rulings, like Doe v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp. (1995), which allowed an employer to not employ an HIV-positive surgeon because of a tiny but real chance that the surgeon would inadvertently transmit HIV to a patient. The chance of an alcoholic driver killing someone may be much greater than the chance of an HIV-positive surgeon killing a patient).

What's next for the Obama administration? Regulations requiring that Rapists be hired as OB/Gyns, Pedophiles? can't be fired from teaching positions? How about alcoholics as School Bus Drivers? http://teamstersonline.com/forums/freight-talk/29385-feds-sue-old-dominion-disability-discrimination.html

Whats next for the Obama Administration? Drug addicted Pharmacists? Pedophile operated Daycare? I don't know about you but I think we have enough drunks on the road. It's the companies business if the don't want to put alcoholics in their trucks & I don't blame them. Who will be sued when they kill someone? http://teamstersonline.com/forums/freight-talk/29385-feds-sue-old-dominion-disability-discrimination.html

Is this an example of Obamas regulations helping or hurting Jobs? http://teamstersonline.com/forums/freight-talk/29385-feds-sue-old-dominion-disability-discrimination.html Looks like Obama is in the Unions pocket more than ever...