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Routine compliance check leads to $1 million payout

Feds Hit Employer Hard In Discrimination Case
Tom D'Agostino
by Tom D'Agostino
1 minute read

The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Compliance Programs conducted a routine compliance check, and it will cost a federal contractor $1 million. 

The office evaluated the Worley Group. Worley’s parent company is a federal defense contractor. The office determined that the company illegally discriminated against 42 female, Black and Hispanic employees with respect to pay. It said the discrimination went all the way back to 2016.

The company’s parent had a federal contract valued at $2.1 million. It denied that it engaged in any illegal behavior.

Nevertheless, it agreed to resolve the allegations against it by paying $500,000 in back wages and interest to the alleged victims.

The company further agreed to allocate another $500,000 to be used to make salary adjustments.

It will also provide training regarding compensation to its managers and human resources employees.

Tom D'Agostino
Tom D'Agostino
Tom D’Agostino is an attorney and legal editor who has more than 30 years of experience writing about employment law, disability law and education law trends. He earned his B.A. degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey and his J.D. from the Duquesne University School of Law. D’Agostino, who is a member of the Pennsylvania bar, is a past member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities and the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Legal Services to Persons with Disabilities Committee. He has provided technical assistance in the production of segments for television’s ABC World News and 20/20, and he has been quoted in periodicals including USA Today. He is also a past contributing author of Legal Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An Analysis of Federal Law, which is a comprehensive twovolume treatise addressing the legal rights of people with disabilities. Tom is passionate about baseball and authentic Italian food. When not writing, he enjoys spending time with family.
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