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FedEx Express Settles Racial Bias Suit
Reuters
April 12, 2007
Package delivery company FedEx Corp. said Wednesday that it had agreed to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against its express unit, FedEx Express, for $53.5 million. The suit alleged that FedEx Express discriminated against its African American and Latino workers by passing them over for promotion, paying them less than white workers and treating them unfairly in evaluation and disciplinary proceedings.
Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx has denied the accusations. FedEx said it voluntarily entered into the settlement, which is subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The settlement would affect about 20,000 employees who work or have worked for FedEx in the company's western U.S. region, which includes California, Washington, Utah and Hawaii, since October 1999.