Cost of noncompliance: Company pays $4.3M in suit
February 4, 2010 by Christian SchappelPosted in: Discrimination, Employment law, In this week's e-newsletter - benefits, Latest News & Views, Money, National origin discrimination, Pay and benefits, Race discrimination
A New York company recently learned an expensive lesson about wage and benefits discrimination.
B & H Foto and Electronics Corp. paid its Hispanic employees less than their non-Hispanic co-workers, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 149 Hispanic warehouse workers.
The company was also accused of failing to provide health benefits to Hispanic workers and promote them because of their national origin.
Result: The company was forced to settle and pay out $4.3 million in wages and benefits to the 149 employees.
As part of the settlement, B & H agreed to:
- equalize Hispanic employees’ wages with other workers’ pay
- maintain a written non-discrimination policy
- conduct supervisor training
- post bilingual wage-and-hour and benefits notices, and
- submit to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) audits for the next five years.
Tags: audits, B & H Foto, benefits notices, eeoc, equal employment opportunity commission, health benefits, Hispanic employees, New York
March 11th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Richard says: EEOC may have stiffed another. Just read CRST comments where EEOC did not investigate witnesses but somehow made a determintion of violation of the statutes it enforces. EEOC can be seen simply to make up or fabriciate evidence such as CRST. CRST called the bluff and awared $4.5 million of taxpayers’ money. MORE INFO TO HAVE WHEN EEOC COMES TO YOUR DOOR REPLY BY COMMENT. lOOK UP tITLE 18 SEC. 1001 AND 28 usc SEC. 535 FOR REFERENCE