Even though it say it didn’t do it, Cargill Meat Solutions has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a hiring discrimination case with the U.S. Department of Labor.
The case was filed in 2011 by the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. The suit charged Cargill with engaging in discriminatory hiring practices involving nearly 3,000 job applicants at meat production facilities in Colorado, Arkansas and Illinois. Cargill, according to the government, rejected workers based on race, sex and national origin.
Cargill Meat Solutions, a unit of Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc., said it agreed to the settlement to avoid the cost of a protracted legal defense against the claims. It called the federal allegations “unfounded and with merit.”
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
