EEOC: Bass Pro Discriminates Against Blacks, Hispanics in Hiring

Workforce.com
By Judy Greenwald
September 22, 2011

Bass Pro Outdoor World L.L.C., a 60-store sporting goods retailer, has been charged by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with engaging in a pattern of failing to hire African-American and Hispanic job applicants, the agency said.
The lawsuit, filed Sept. 22 in federal court in Houston, accuses the Springfield, Missouri-based retailer of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and says it has been discriminating in its hiring practices since at least November 2005.
The suit alleges that qualified African-Americans and Hispanics routinely were denied retail positions such as cashier, sales associate, team leader, supervisor and manager at many stores nationwide.

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