Bank of America ordered to pay $2.2 million to 1,000 BLACK job seekers it DISCRIMINATED against.

[WheresWallace]

Bank of America ordered to pay $2.2 million to 1,000 black job seekers it discriminated against

An investigation by the Labor Department found that Bank of America's Charlotte office had used "unfair and inconsistent selection criteria" in order to deny African Americans work.

As an employer, it wasn’t exactly the bank for all of America.

Bank of America was ordered Monday to pay 1,147 African American job applicants $2,181,593 in back wages and interest after a judge found that the company’s Charlotte office had racially discriminated against them.

Judge Linda S. Chapman ruled that the bank used “unfair and inconsistent selection criteria” when it routinely chose white applicants over black job-seekers in 1993 and again between 2002 and 2005.

In 1993, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs launched a review of the bank that turned up evidence of “systemic hiring discrimination” against African Americans, denying them entry-level clerical and administrative positions.

Bank of America vigorously contested the allegations and argued that the Labor Department did not have the legal authority to impose fines against it, but the judge sided with the government’s claim that because the bank is a federally insured entity, it qualifies as a federal contractor.

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The Labor Department conducted a review of the bank in 1993 and found what it said were "systemic hiring discrimination" against African Americans.
The ruling was a long-awaited victory for the Labor Department, which had first brought the case to court in 1997.

"Wherever doors of opportunity are unfairly closed to workers, we will be there to open them — no matter how long it takes," OFCCP Director Patricia A. Shiu said in a statement. "Judge Chapman's decision upholds the legal principle of making victims of discrimination whole, and these workers deserve to get the full measure of what is owed to them."

The bank must now pay $964,033 to 1,034 applicants who were rejected for jobs in 1993, and another $1,217,560 to 113 African Americans who were denied work between 2002 and 2005. In addition, Bank of America has been ordered offer jobs to 10 applicants who were originally turned down.

The bank, meanwhile, refused to comment on the specifics of the ruling.

“At Bank of America, diversity and inclusion are part of our culture and core company values,” Christopher Feeney, a spokesman for the bank, said in a statement. “We actively promote an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...nated-blacks-pay-2-2-million-article-1.146539

Live in a post racial America brehs.

 

[and 47 others]

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[BrothaZay]

Lol that's 2,200 dollars each

Here's a better idea, why don't you self hating, lack of ambitious having, arm chair activist make it a goal to work for yourself and making it so the next generation of African Americans won't have to go thru shyt like this. Oh yea I forget, you're happy as long as massah gives u 40+ hours a weak, and 0.000001% of the money you generate.

 

[Y2Dre]

This shyt is stupid.


We'll have a 1.1 trillion dollar spending power in America by 2015 and we don't even have our own bank.

 

[Boy C]

Awesome, but the pay out is insulting. $2,200/each or $2.2 million total is change to BoA.

 

[babylon1]

 

[el_oh_el]

Awesome, but the pay out is insulting. $2,200/each or $2.2 million total is change to BoA.

Dusty, linty change you find during spring cleaning

 

[WheresWallace]

Lol that's 2,200 dollars each

Here's a better idea, why don't you self hating, lack of ambitious having, arm chair activist make it a goal to work for yourself and making it so the next generation of African Americans won't have to go thru shyt like this. Oh yea I forget, you're happy as long as massah gives u 40+ hours a weak, and 0.000001% of the money you generate.

Who was that comment directed at? That shyt don't apply to me.

 

[Boy C]

Sad.

But.. this is one of the reason why people hate banks and bankers.

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

Hol up


I applied for a Bank of America job a couple months back and i didn't get shyt
I live in va but it's pretty close to NC, who do I call to get compensation?

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

Lol that's 2,200 dollars each

Here's a better idea, why don't you self hating, lack of ambitious having, arm chair activist make it a goal to work for yourself and making it so the next generation of African Americans won't have to go thru shyt like this. Oh yea I forget, you're happy as long as massah gives u 40+ hours a weak, and 0.000001% of the money you generate.

don't worry...they won't see it