Court: USPS Illegally Fired Worker for Reporting Injury

A federal court in Washington state ruled that the U.S. Postal Service illegally retaliated against a worker who reported a workplace injury and applied for workers’ compensation benefits in 2019. “The court’s action follows an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration that found the USPS terminated the worker in retaliation for filing an injury report,” the Labor Department said in a statement. “The agency also determined the USPS stopped conducting performance evaluations and then fired the worker before...