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African American unemployment rate rises August, African American men hit hard
The decline in unemployment in August 2021 masked a rise in the African American unemployment rate and African American men in particular. The unemployment rate for African Americans rose to 8.8 percent in August from 8.2 percent in July, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. Among African American men, unemployment reached 9.1 percent, up from […]
EEOC Wins Big Settlements In Recent Discrimination And Racial Harassment Cases
06/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Big Settlements In Recent Discrimination And Racial Harassment Cases
Among the horror stories are blatantly racist bosses, nooses hanging in the workplace, a county prosecutor turned workplace persecutor and systematic national origin discrimination. In the past few months, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, has handled several cases involving severe racial harassment. The cases include a $2.75 million settlement against an environmental clean […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Tough-Talking Racist Boss In Texas Costs Company $200,000
05/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Tough-Talking Racist Boss In Texas Costs Company $200,000
A superintendent at a Texas metal manufacturing plant who was racist and not afraid to show it, cost his company $200,000, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC.) A federal jury awarded $200,000 in punitive damages yesterday to three former employees of AA Foundries in a racial harassment lawsuit filed by EEOC. The EEOC’s […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases
06/03/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods CasesEEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases By LAURA LIEBECK — American workers prevailed in three separate discrimination cases recently settled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In Tennessee, the owners of Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Hartsville and Lafayette, Tn., must pay $40,000 to settle a race and gender discrimination lawsuit filed […]
Continue reading …Pepsi Pays $3 Million to Settle EEOC Discrimination Claim
05/02/2012 Comments Off on Pepsi Pays $3 Million to Settle EEOC Discrimination Claim
By ROBERT SCALLY and R. DAVID WENDEL– Pepsi Beverages will pay $3.13 million and provide job offers and training to settle charges of racial discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Minneapolis office. More than 300 African Americans were affected by a criminal background check policy that disproportionately excluded black applicants from permanent employment […]
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