Source: EEOC
PBM Graphics, Inc., a Research Triangle Park, N.C., printing company, will pay $334,000 to settle a national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that PBM violated federal law by refusing to place and/or assign non-Hispanic workers to its "core group" of regular temporary workers.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, PBM routinely used temporary workers for its production needs. The EEOC's complaint charged that PBM engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against non-Hispanic temporary workers who worked in its light bindery production jobs.
The suit further charged that PBM assigned a disproportionately greater number of work hours to Hispanic temporary workers than to similarly qualified non-Latino temporary workers, thereby denying non-Hispanic temporary workers hours of work based on their non-Hispanic national origin. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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