California Laundry Facility Pays $1.1M To Settle EEOC Hiring Discrimination Claims

(August 8, 2024, 8:48 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California laundry facility’s $1.1 million settlement of discriminatory hiring claims by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and approved by a federal judge in California brings the total settlement for a class of workers who the EEOC said were not hired based on their race and national origin or were subjected to segregated jobs based on their gender to $3.3 million as the temporary staffing agency used by the laundry facility settled the claims against it in April....