UPS agreed to pay $2 million to resolve a long-runningnationwide dispute with former and current employees who claimedthe company's inflexible leave policy unfairly positioned disabled workers, the U.S. Equal EmploymentOpportunity Commission said Tuesday.

Nearly 90 current and former employees of the Atlanta-basedshipping company will receive the settlement following a lawsuitfiled by the EEOC in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for theNorthern District of Illinois.

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