Under the settlement, department officials said Wednesday, FedEx has agreed to make wide-ranging changes to correct any discriminatory hiring practices and to extend job offers to 1,703 of the people rejected for jobs as part-time package handlers as those positions become available.
On the other hand, if inflation takes off, or wage settlements rise, departments may struggle to live within the totals they have agreed.Paying departments by results will also be hard.
Under the settlement, the department agreed to pay $125,000 in legal fees and damages to plaintiffs.
As part of the settlement, the department is required to report every instance of stopping and searching to the Center for Constitutional Rights and other lawyers for the plaintiffs.
But in the settlement the department admitted to no "improper practices" and claimed that the anti-discrimination component was just a reiteration of what had been their policy all along.
Under the proposed settlement, the department's Bureau of Reclamation will continue to deliver water for irrigation of cotton, barley, wheat and other crops in the Westlands Water District, chiefly at rates established in 1963.
Skip to next paragraph Related Terms of Digital Book Deal With Google Revised (November 14 , 2009 Times Topics: Google Book Search Filing by the Justice Department (pdf) In a 31-page filing that could influence a federal judge's ruling on the settlement, the department said the new agreement was much improved from an earlier version.
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As part of a negotiated settlement, the department was required make 51 specific steps toward reform or else see be placed into federal receivership.
Under the settlement, the department must submit to court oversight of its crowd control procedures -- another layer of federal involvement that comes as LAPD leaders are impatient to be free of a long-standing and more onerous monitoring program imposed after the Rampart Division corruption scandal.
