Sodexho Settles Large Racial Bias Case

[dArKeR]

The case was filed in March 2001 against the company's corporate predecessor, Sodexho Marriott Services, Inc., after midlevel black managers said they realized nearly all had been denied promotions into upper management, while less-qualified counterparts rose through the company.

The settlement will mean payouts to 10 lead plaintiffs and as many as 3,000 other black salaried workers who worked at the company between 1998 and 2004, according to the settlement decree.

Black employees at BellSouth Corp., for example, are seeking a judge's authorization to go forward as a group in a discrimination case that could involve as many as 15,000 employees. At Wal-Mart, 1.6 million women are alleging in the largest job-related class-action lawsuit ever that they were assigned lower-level jobs based on their gender.

In 2000, Coca-Cola paid $192.5 million to settle the largest racial discrimination case in U.S. history.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/sodexho_bias_suit

1. This isn't a "it happened in the 50s - 60s so lets just forget about it".
2. Why don't pussy Democrats hold this up and say "this is why Repukes and aWol want their immoral corrupt lying judges. So that cases like these will be thrown out and/or reversed."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Wow..the same Sodhexo who profits off of all the black folks we lock up

keeps em down at the home office too! Go figure!

[davsand]

2. These guys ran food service in our local non-profit hospital.

That would be the one we worked to remove from property tax exemption, in part, for allowing the facilities to be used by for profit corporations. We also nailed them for not providing charity care to the poor.

It just keeps getting better and better... What we did was the right thing, but I see shit like this and I am even more convinced that we did what was best for the people of this county.


Laura

[Double T]

3. This is one of the sleaziest companies around..

I know firsthand!!!!!