He needs a jury of his pears.

A disabled former UPS employee in Manhattan was fired for eating a pear — but says the shipping giant actually sent him packing because it didn’t want to deal with his special health needs, according to a new lawsuit.

William Cortez and five coworkers partook from a box of pears left out in their office in December 2017, but his bosses cherry-picked him, making him the only one fired for the tasty transgression more than a year later, his suit, filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, alleges.

“UPS policy and practice” lets employees eat “perfectly edible food” that cannot be delivered because it’s on the verge of going bad, the suit claims.

Cortez, who had worked for the company since 2004, says he was even questioned about the pear party soon after, but the company didn’t give a fig at the time because he ate the pears “in accordance with established policy,” the court papers state.

But things went sour after Cortez spent a year on disability for congestive heart failure beginning later that month, the lawsuit claims.

A doctor finally cleared Cortez to return to work in March 2019, telling him to stick to desk work and avoid driving and lifting more than 25 pounds, the suit states.

UPS’s human-resources department set up a March 4, 2019, meeting to discuss workplace accommodations with Cortez — but the company used the huddle to fire him over the 2017 snack break, according to court papers.

UPS claimed noshing on the forbidden fruit was considered theft and was the reason for his termination — but the company didn’t fire the other five employees who ate pears that day, the lawsuit states.

“As stated in the complaint, Mr. Cortez was terminated because of his disabilities and because UPS did not want to provide him reasonable accommodations,” lawyer Danilo Bandovic told The Post.

“Instead of providing him with reasonable accommodations, they claimed he was a thief. Yet they continued to employ everyone else that engaged in the same behavior.”

Cortez is seeking undisclosed damages.

A UPS spokesman said the company will “review the case, investigate the situation, and respond accordingly.”