Monday, March 26, 2012

FedEx settles hiring probe for $3 million

chicagotribune.com
Lynn Adler
Reuters
3:22 PM CDT, March 22, 2012

(Reuters) - FedEx Corp will pay back wages and interest to more than 21,000 people rejected for jobs in a $3 million settlement of a bias case brought against two of the company's units by the U.S. Department of Labor.

FedEx Ground Package System Inc and FedEx SmartPost Inc were the focus of a 7-year-long review by the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). This was the largest single financial settlement it had negotiated since 2004, OFCCP said in a statement.

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-fedex-laborbre82l11j-20120322,0,5169255.story

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