Trucking Company Sued for Sex Discrimination at Driver Training Academies

KLLM Transport Services LLC, a nationwide trucking company, and its subsidiary, KLLM Driving Academy, Inc., which operate driver training academies in Lancaster, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi, violated federal law by subjecting female student drivers to sex discrimination through several unlawful policies and practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, KLLM subjected their female student drivers to overtly discriminatory training conditions because of sex since at least January 2021. This included adopting male trainers’ decisions to opt out of training female student drivers instead of providing separate single-sex sleeping quarters during training, a practice that forced women drivers to wait longer to start their training. Additionally, KLLM refused to pay female student drivers who opted to receive instruction from female trainers while they waited for a female trainer to be available, but paid all other student drivers, including males who opted for a male trainer, who were waiting to start their training. KLLM also mandated that only female student drivers who were willing to receive driving instruction from a male trainer notify their spouses or partners as a precondition to start training, according to EEOC’s complaint. Source: EEOC Topics Lawsuits Personal Auto Training Development Trucking Was this article valuable? Thank you! Please tell us what we can do to improve this article. Thank you! % of people found this article valuable. Please tell us what you liked about it. Here are more articles you may enjoy.