April 20, 2022
Job applicants who sought work at a packaged food maker in California, Texas or five other states have until May 1 to seek a cut of a $2 million race bias settlement, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday.
September 17, 2019
Packaged food maker Marquez Brothers International Inc. has agreed to fork over $2 million to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission class action alleging discriminatory hiring practices, according to a consent decree filed Tuesday in California federal court.
June 26, 2018
A California federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawyers acted in bad faith when they didn't disclose that two people who spurred an agency class action had died before it was filed, saying the lawyers may be sanctioned but that class allegations can proceed.
April 04, 2018
A California company on Tuesday accused the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and its lawyers of waging a "bad-faith campaign" by concealing the fact that both of the people named in an agency suit last year were long dead.