Whitey Ford
01-02-2019, 07:34 PM
Wannabe firefighter who failed physical test 3 times sues to get job anyway (https://nypost.com/2018/12/31/wannabe-firefighter-who-failed-physical-test-3-times-sues-to-get-job-anyway/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow)
A firefighter wannabe who failed the FDNY physical test three times has sued the city and the department, demanding he get the job anyway, in a brazen effort an FDNY source called “absurd.”
Kevin Walker, 47, had been a lead plaintiff in the Vulcan Society’s class-action case against the city, which accused the department of discriminating against minority firefighter applicants and was settled in 2014 for $100 million. The Jamaica, Queens, resident got $22,500 of that payout.
Because of Walker’s participation in the case, he became a “priority hire” when he passed the 2013 qualifying exam and would have been allowed to come aboard well past the usual maximum age of 35 — but was not able to because he repeatedly flunked the physical test.
A firefighter wannabe who failed the FDNY physical test three times has sued the city and the department, demanding he get the job anyway, in a brazen effort an FDNY source called “absurd.”
Kevin Walker, 47, had been a lead plaintiff in the Vulcan Society’s class-action case against the city, which accused the department of discriminating against minority firefighter applicants and was settled in 2014 for $100 million. The Jamaica, Queens, resident got $22,500 of that payout.
Because of Walker’s participation in the case, he became a “priority hire” when he passed the 2013 qualifying exam and would have been allowed to come aboard well past the usual maximum age of 35 — but was not able to because he repeatedly flunked the physical test.