Ferrara Candy Job Discrimination Class Action Settlement Checks Mailed

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Top Class Actions viewers are starting to receive checks in the mail from a class action settlement that accused Ferrara Candy Company of discriminating against African American job applicants.

According to reader comments and posts on the Top Class Actions Facebook page,Class Members who submitted timely and valid claims for the Ferrara discrimination class action settlement began receiving checks worth as much as $904.82 on Jan. 12, 2017.

If you filed a claim for the Ferrara settlement, keep an eye on your mailbox because checks are on their way!

The Ferrara class action settlement resolves allegations that the candy company refused to hire African-American workers for available positions including Machine Operator, Mogul Cook, Engrosser, Janitor, Quality Control Technician or Shipping Clerk.

Plaintiffs Brian Lucas, Aronzo Davis, Torrence Vaughans and Maurice Milton filed the class action lawsuit after allegedly being steered away from jobs at Ferrara by the staffing agencies REM and Labor Power.

The plaintiffs say Ferrara’s workforce assigned by REM and Labor Power was “overwhelmingly Latino.” By filing the class action, the plaintiffs hoped to recover lost wages that they could have received if Ferrara would have hired them.

Ferrara, Labor Power and REM denied the allegations but agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle the claims and avoid the risk and cost of further litigation.

Class Members included “all African Americans who sought a work assignment through REM or through Labor Power and were otherwise eligible to work at Ferrara or who were Ferrara Direct Applicant Class Members but, on one or more occasions, were not assigned or hired to work at Ferrara in such capacity during the period of February 27, 2009 through the December 22, 2015 Approval Date.”

The deadline to file a claim for the Ferrara job applicant settlement passed on May 3, 2016.

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The Class is represented by Christopher J. Williams and Alvar Ayala of the Workers’ Law Office PC; Joseph M. Sellers and Shaylyn Cochran of Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll PLLC.

The Ferrara Job Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit is Lucas, et al. v. Ferrara Candy Company, et al., Case No. 1:13-cv-01525, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.