October 03, 2022
Black employees claiming an industrial baker and the staffing firm it contracted with illegally denied them work have asked an Illinois federal judge for an initial sign-off on a $1 million deal resolving their class action lawsuit after roughly nine years of litigation.
April 01, 2020
An Illinois federal judge has certified a class of African American laborers who claim that an industrial baker and the staffing firm it contracted with illegally denied them work, a ruling the workers' lawyers say is the first time that such a racial bias claim has been certified against a staffing agency.