Bloomberg Law
April 6, 2018, 12:29 AM UTC

Target to Pay $3.7M to Settle Criminal History Hiring Bias Suit

Patrick Dorrian
Patrick Dorrian
Reporter

Target Corp. will pay $3.74 million and give priority hiring opportunities to some black and Latino job applicants to resolve charges that its criminal background check policy illegally excluded thousands of minorities from hourly and entry-level jobs.

The April 5 filing of the preliminary settlement comes the same day the company was sued in Manhattan federal court by the Fortune Society and two workers on behalf of a proposed nationwide class. The lawsuit alleges that Target’s practice of requiring disclosure of prior convictions and other criminal history on its job applications had a disparate impact on black and Latino applicants, ...

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