Labor Dept. Discrimination Settlements Hit Record in Fiscal 2017

By Jay-Anne B. Casuga and Jasmine Ye Han, Bloomberg BNA

Federal contractors forked over a record $23 million in the past fiscal year to settle workplace discrimination charges from the Labor Department, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of publicly available government data.

Since last October, the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has settled hiring and pay discrimination claims with more than three dozen companies, including Bank of America, B&H Foto, International Paper, KPMG, LabCorp, Leidos, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Palantir Technologies, Splunk, and State Street. The total figure of at least $23.1 million calculated by Bloomberg Law doesn’t ...