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$54.9 Million Settlement Reached in FedEx Race Discrimination Class Action
April 10, 2007
Class counsel announced that a $54.9 million settlement has been reached in a race discrimination class action lawsuit by African American and Latino employees of FedEx Express.
The settlement requires FedEx to reform its promotion, discipline, and pay practices. Under the settlement, FedEx will implement multiple steps to promote equal employment opportunities, including making its performance evaluation process less discretionary, discarding use of the "Basic Skills Test" as a prerequisite to promotion into certain desirable positions, and submitting policy changes to demonstrate that its revised practices do not continue to foster racial discrimination.