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

Nearly 90 current and former employees of the Atlanta-based shipping company will receive the settlement following a lawsuit filed by the EEOC in 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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