UPS Can Bar Some Workers From Driving

United Parcel Service Inc. doesn’t violate California law when it bars some vision-impaired workers from driving company vehicles, a federal appeals court said.

UPS has shown that employees who suffer from monocular vision, which can affect peripheral vision, may endanger the safety of others, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

Employees had sued, alleging discrimination by Atlanta-based UPS, because it wouldn’t let them drive package cars weighing less than 10,000 pounds, which aren’t federally regulated. The Department of Transportation doesn’t allow people with monocular vision to drive commercial vehicles weighing more than 10,000 pounds.