Sentence examples for class action discrimination from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in 1996, the state paid $3.7 million to settle a class action discrimination suit filed by black and female officers.

Led by Reginald G. Moore, a Secret Service agent who once held a top spot on President Clinton's protective detail, black agents last week filed a class action discrimination complaint with the agency charging systematic bias in promotions, assignments and transfers.

The Novartis settlement agreement, like many other class action discrimination settlements, includes an emphasis on reforming human resources and the complaint process so that they work for employees and not against them.

The Social Security Administration has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle a class-action discrimination complaint by 2,200 black male employees, officials said today.

Mr. Sanford said the case was one of the largest class-action discrimination lawsuits to ever reach trial, based on the size of the class.

The panel was created by the terms of a settlement of a class-action discrimination suit against Coke and has the power to make binding recommendations about how the company hires, promotes and evaluates employees who are women or minorities.

The Norfolk Southern Corporation, one of the nation's largest railroads, has announced an agreement to settle a class-action discrimination lawsuit by paying $28 million and changing the way it promotes workers.

The Coca-Cola Company and the plaintiffs in a class-action discrimination lawsuit against the company said yesterday that Alexis M. Herman, the former labor secretary, would be the chairwoman of a panel that will oversee the company's diversity efforts.

"The Justice Department has sought to hide from the public statistically significant findings of discrimination against minorities within its ranks," said David J. Shaffer, a lawyer who has represented agents from federal agencies in class-action discrimination lawsuits.

In 1996, as friction intensified amid predominantly white, affluent residents and the Central American men who gather there to solicit landscaping, construction and other day jobs, immigration rights advocates filed a class-action discrimination lawsuit against the village.

Paradoxically, his only experience in a class-action discrimination lawsuit has been defending a Florida sugar company sued by West Indian cane cutters in a case that he won and is being appealed.