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For $3.75 million, Target has settled a class action lawsuit alleging that the company’s background check policy is discriminatory.
As a result of the settlement, Target will take action to remedy the alleged discrimination including giving hiring preference to previously rejected black and Latino job applicants, pay damages to those no longer seeking jobs at Target, revise its background check system, and support nonprofits who help formerly incarcerated individuals find employment.
Plaintiffs Carnella Times and Erving Smith were previous job seekers at Target who believed they faced discrimination due to Target’s background check policy. They claimed that Target’s background check violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, because it disadvantages black and Latino job applicants.
The Target discriminatory hiring practices class action lawsuit alleged that Target doesn’t hire job applicants who have been convicted of felonies involving “violence, theft, or controlled substances,” in the seven years before they submitted their application. According to the workers, Target also does not hire applicants who they believe lied about or misrepresented their criminal backgrounds.
Times and Smith claimed that this practice is illegal under Tile VII because it affectively “imports the radical and ethnic disparities that exist in the criminal justice system into the employment process.” Thus, the workers claim that Target’s hiring practices amplify existing discrimination, disadvantaging black and Latino job applicants more than white applicants.
Target has agreed to a class action settlement, stating that they will take actions that include actively giving preference to more than 41,000 black and Latino job applicants who were previously rejected because of criminal history. The company will pay the $3.75 million to applicants who are no longer seeking employment with Target and were previously denied. Additionally, the company has agreed to donate $600,000 to nonprofit organizations who help previously incarcerated individuals find a job.
The company will also reportedly hire independent consultants to assess Target’s background check policy, and hire organizational psychology experts to analyze how Target uses criminal background checks in hiring decisions, and to help the company find a new, less discriminatory way to approach that information.
In a positive response to the Target discriminatory background check policy class action lawsuit, the workers stated that the settlement “provides a process for remedying Target’s allegedly flawed hiring policies; it affords class members opportunities to obtain jobs or compensation; it funds a [system] that will help nonprofit organizations engaged in re-entry work.”
The workers expressed pleasure at the fact that the settlement not only compensated workers directly impacted, but makes efforts to better Target’s hiring approach going forward, and aids organizations working to decrease discrimination on a societal level.
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Times and Smith are represented by Ossai Miazad, Adam T. Klein, Lewis Steel, Cheryl-Lyn Bentley, and Christopher M. McNerney of Outten & Golden LLP; and Sherrilyn Ifill, Samual Spital, and Coty Montag of NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
The Target Discriminatory Background Checks Class Action Lawsuit is Carnella Times, et al. v. Target Corporation, Case No. 1:18-cv-02993, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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168 thoughts onTarget Will Pay $3.75M to Settle Employee Discrimination Class Action
Any word on settlement checks ? Anything or anyone received them yet??
Have you heard anything about the lawsuit?
I was wondering if anyone has received their check yet or if anyone has gotten any info about the lawsuit? I haven’t heard anything since I got the paperwork saying I qualified and I sent back to them. Any info about law firm or numbers I can call to check?
I haven’t received anything yet either and I sent my paperwork in to ?
Any word yet has anyone received anything yet?? It’s almost end of March, for those who said to expect it.
I just spoke with Fiona and she said that they’re separating claim forms because Not everyone wants money some people want the JOB!
So after that Process then it’ll be mailed.
Ms. Bridgette M.
March 22nd 1;23pm
Chicago time…
Thanks bridgette for that update. I’m from Chicago originally as well. Hope everything is well back there minus the Coronavirus pandemic issues.
Thanks bridgette for that update. I’m from Chicago originally as well.
Can you share the contact number please
Any word or has anyone received anything yet?? What # do I call?
The Checks Will Be Mailed @ The End Of March…
Then Send My Birthday Blessing, Cash App
$Bridgette Morrow
Thanks Guys??
Is that what they told you
Yeah when I called the number they told me that they didn’t have information as to when the checks were gonna be mailed. It’s a waiting game basically. How are people getting info about end of March for the checks???,
They aren’t they are lying. Remember it’s a lot of weirdos in the world.
About what
About when checks come they don’t know nobody gave them a date
When will I get my check that I settled for. I sent the information in back in November.
I’m not sure how people are getting an update on this check by calling. I called and was told they don’t have any information for the time that the checks will be mailed out…. They said we just have to wait.
When I called the number they told me by the end of March so I’m just waiting
I’m trying to get updated information on when checks will be issued
Did anyone get theirs yet or a position with the job or anything