United Parcel Service will pay $10 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by more than 1,000 current and former deaf employees. In the settlement UPS also promised to provide deaf workers with interpreters, for interviews, orientation, training, safety meetings and disciplinary sessions.

“This settlement is precedent-setting,” said Caroline Jacobs, a lawyer with Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit law group. “It sends a message to employers throughout the country that disabled employees deserve the same opportunities in the workplace as any other employee, and the nation’s fourth largest employer can’t treat its deaf employees as second-class citizens.”.

(via New York Times)