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JUDGMENTS WORLDWIDE
* USA - C.R. England trucking sued under Disability Act
Salt Lake,UH,USA -The Salt Lake Tribune, by Paul Beebe -27 Sept 2006: -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued C.R. England Inc., alleging the Salt Lake City-based trucking company illegally revealed a former employee's private medical information and treated him unfairly because of his disability... The alleged conduct violates the Americans With Disabilities Act, which bars employers from discriminating on the basis of disability, according to the suit... The EEOC wants a jury to order C.R. England to compensate Watson for emotional pain and suffering... C.R. England is the largest hauler of refrigerated cargo in the country. Sales last year totaled $544 million...
* USA - Trucking company owner sentenced in license case
St. Louis,MO,USA -St. Louis Post/Dispatch -28 Sept 2006: -- A former St. Louis trucking company owner was sentenced Wednesday to two years on probation for lying to investigators in a case about fabricated Missouri commercial drivers license documents... Samir Hasanovic, 22, of Arnold, pleaded guilty in July in federal court in St. Louis to making false statements. Hasanovic had told authorities that he passed a driver's test in Kansas City, when in fact he paid someone for falsified papers, according to court documents. He was one of 15 people indicted last week in federal court in Kansas City in a similar case... Authorities on both sides of the state have been investigating whether private testers took bribes to license unqualified truckers...
* Australia - Labor blast at trucking boss's federal IR shift
New South Wales,Australia -The Australian, by Imre Salusinszky -Sept 30, 2006: -- NSW Industrial Relations Minister John Della Bosca has launched a stinging attack on billionaire businessman Lindsay Fox, muddying federal Labor leader Kim Beazley's attempts to placate business leaders over the party's workplace policies... Lashing out at Mr Fox during a closed meeting of state and federal workplace ministers in Melbourne yesterday, Mr Della Bosca said the trucking and property magnate had transferred his company, Linfox, to the federal workers compensation regime only to evade the states' tougher workplace safety laws... A spokesman for Mr Della Bosca said his comments about Mr Fox "were not meant to be a direct criticism, but were used to illustrate a general concern about larger companies moving away from the NSW WorkCover system, which has a very active inspectorate". Mr Andrews has allowed selected large companies, operating across several jurisdictions, to access a national workers compensation and workplace safety regime, quarantining them from state laws... NSW has the most punitive workplace safety laws in Australia and they have frequently been cited as a cause of business flight to Queensland and Victoria...
* Maui - Trucking executives plead guilty
Wailuku,Maui,HI,USA -The Maui News, by CLAUDINE SAN NICOLAS -Sept 30, 2006: -- Two officers of Maui Trucking Inc. were given a chance to wipe their criminal records clean after being placed on five years’ probation for failing to pay thousands of dollars in state withholding taxes... Edward Apana, Maui Trucking’s president, and Roger Apana, the company’s secretary/treasurer, were sentenced Friday by 2nd Circuit Judge Joel August. The two men and their company, which is a subsidiary of Maui Scrap Metal, were ordered to pay $59,356 in restitution by Dec. 29. They must also each pay a $2,500 fine plus fees...
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